The best description of how his discovery came about, according to Sir Alec, has been provided by his grandson as part of a school project ... because of the size of the genome. If you look at the ...

The chimp genome's closeness to the human genome will make it a powerful tool for comparative genetics, which uses interspecies comparisons to identify areas of interest in the vast fields of data ...

Pangolins are unique as they are the only mammal to be covered in scales. Even though they are scaly, photos of them are ...

On Wednesday, officials with the Oklahoma City Zoo announced the death Mwami, a 36-year-old chimpanzee.

Gabon’s biodiversity is among the largest and most diverse wild ecosystems in the world, with nearly 90% of its territory ...

Save the Chimps is an organization unlike any other. The world’s largest privately funded chimpanzee sanctuary, it’s home to ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

Researchers find a master epigenetic switch that activates silenced genes to compensate for their missing counterparts in a ...

Landmark single-cell dataset of one billion cells will be used to train new AI models to advance understanding of cellular ...

Genomics is the study of the full genetic complement of an organism (the genome). It employs recombinant DNA, DNA sequencing methods, and bioinformatics to sequence, assemble, and analyse the ...