The discovery was made thanks to data from the 1000 Genomes Project – “the largest public catalogue of human variation and genotype data” from populations around the world. While it’s now known that ...

Ashley started at The Scientist in 2018. Before joining the staff, she worked as a freelance editor and writer, a writer at the Simons Foundation, and a web producer at Science News, among other ...

Human Genome Variation is an online-only, full open access journal that contains articles and reports about variation and variability in human genomes and the consequences, implications and future ...

Analysis of individual human genomes has revealed an unexpected amount of variability in human populations. Copy number variation (CNV) has recently been identified as a major cause of structural ...

A study recently published in Nature indicates that human activities have a negative effect on the biodiversity of wildlife ...

Scientists have accomplished the most advanced engineering of human cell lines to date, demonstrating that genomes are more robust against significant structural changes than previously understood.