Baboons, Humans Adapted Similarly to Malaria

Greg Wray says that the parallel evolution of a gene that protects against malaria parasites in baboons and humans "is a nice example of how – in the vastness of the genome – the same gene was modified in the same way in two different species to produce the same kind of resistance."READ MORE

Greenwall Scholar to Examine Use of 'Race' in Medicine

People cannot be classified into distinct races based on their biology, but that hasn’t stopped the use of racial categories in clinical research and practice. So how do you eliminate or reduce health disparities and stay true to the science?, asks the IGSP's Charmaine Royal, who has been named a Greenwall Faculty Scholar to examine the use of race in medicine.READ MORE

Duke Bioinformatics Workshop

The sequencing of the human and other genomes has led to a bewildering array of genomic information, analytical tools, and ancillary databases that can be challenge to navigate. The Duke Bioinformatics Workshop will lend graduate students and experienced scientific researchers alike the expertise to efficiently explore this explosion of information.LEARN MORE