17 FEBRUARY -- Mapping of key genetic signposts across three human populations could help speed efforts to pinpoint disease-related DNA variations, and ultimately may promise more effective, ...

A new genome-wide mapping method finally shows how thousands of genes connect to drive disease. Biomedical researchers are working intensively to identify the genes that contribute to disease, with ...

Achieving a High Level of Purity Is Often a Challenge to the Researcher The single most important prerequisite for genomic research is clean starting material. Without this initial clarity, the ...

If the concept of personalized medicine is to be realized, it is increasingly clear that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), the most common genetic variations between human beings, will be a key ...

Lettuce (L. sativa L., 2n = 2x = 18) is an agricuturally important leafy vegetable cultivated predominantly in temperate climates and produced in large quantities in Korea. The complete decoding of ...