The 67 scientists from five nations leading the chimp genome project are reporting their results today in a series of eight papers published in the journal Nature.

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.

Most notably, savanna-dwelling chimps lack these genetic signals found in the first population. The incredible study ...

Their research article was one of several analyses that accompanied a report on the draft sequence of the chimpanzee genome. Eichler also participated in the chimpanzee genome project.

Evolutionary biologists hope that a chimp genome project will provide molecular data about how the human lineage evolved.

Clint, the chimpanzee whose genome sequence will soon be published, has died. His demise has sparked a debate about whether more effort should be made to preserve samples from the individuals that ...

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) ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

An international consortium of researchers has published the genome sequence of the rhesus macaque monkey and aligned it with the chimpanzee and human genomes. The analysis reveals that the three ...

When scientists first lobbied for the money (some twenty to thirty million dollars) for the chimp genome project, they argued that the effort would yield a lot of insight into human diseases.

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.

A few years ago, the most ambitious project in the history of biology was carried out: the sequencing of the human genome. Then just four months ago, a team of researchers reported that they had ...