Scientists have compared the genetic blueprints of humans and chimpanzees for the first time and discovered thousands of genes that are virtually identical in both species -- confirming the long ...

Comparisons of the human genome and the newly completed draft of the chimpanzee genome have unearthed major differences between the patterns of large duplicated segments of DNA in the two species.

Dr. EvanEichler, associate professor of genome sciences at the University ofWashington in Seattle, led this study, in addition to being involved inthe Chimpanzee Genome Sequencing Project.

Other DNA differences affect the digestion of foods – not surprising when you consider how much our diets have diverged from chimp diets. When Pollard was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) ...

Initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome and comparison with the human genome. Nature , 2005; 437 (7055): 69 DOI: 10.1038/nature04072 Perry et al. Copy number variation and evolution in humans ...

Genome project chimp dies unexpectedly. By Anna Gosline. 8 January 2005 Clint, the chimpanzee whose genome sequence will soon be published, has died. His demise has sparked a ...

A wide-ranging analysis of the chimpanzee genome sheds new light on how humans evolved, and could eventually result in new medical therapies as well.

The researchers, known as the Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium, took the human genome sequence -- a first draft of it was completed in 2001 -- and compared it with the 3 billion bits ...

The chimp genome "led to literally too many questions, there were 35 million differences between us and chimpanzees — that's too much to figure out," Jonathan Rothberg, 454's chairman, said in a ...

Clint, the chimpanzee in this picture, died several months ago at a relatively young age of 24. But part of him lives on. Scientists chose him–or rather, his DNA–as the subject of their first ...

Some 7,000 genomic parasites known as Alu repeats exist in the human genome, compared to 2,300 in the chimp genome. While a lot of these parasites have no important effect on our genome, others have.