“When the first draft of the human genome was completed . . . it became immediately clear that while we had the primary sequence of the genome, or we had a draft of it . . . we needed to have an ...

Mosquitos. Bane of backyard picnics — and deadly in Zika- and dengue-prone regions. Most of the world’s mosquitos are opportunistic, willing to drink blood from any nearby source. But in some regions, ...

Since the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, research efforts have been aimed at analyzing the functions of various sequences in the genome, using both experimental and computational ...

A paper that will appear in today's edition of Nature starts off with a bang, its first sentence being "The human genome is an elegant but cryptic store of information." The paper's goal is nothing ...

October 15, 2007 — The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has announced that more than $80 million in grant funds during the next 4 years have been designated for a new NHGRI project ...

ENCODE, an international research project led by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), has produced and analyzed 1649 data sets designed to annotate functional elements of the entire ...

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Some strains of Aedes aegypti -- the mosquito that carries Zika, malaria and dengue fever -- have evolved to bite humans almost exclusively. A team has now discovered how they target us so precisely.