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New approach to genetic ancestry developed by Stanford researchers provides estimates of the number of African and European genealogical ancestors in typical family trees.

Combining Indigenous and scientific knowledge to monitor marine life in a sacred tribal region promises new insight into how native species will fare in the face of climate change

If all the games in a single-elimination sports tournament are played sequentially in the same arena, in how many possible sequences can the games be played?

Michael Snyder speaks on Stanford Engineering's "The Future of Everything" podcast

Finding by Stanford researchers supports the concept of progressive evolution in nature

People with mild to moderate COVID-19 can shed viral RNA in their feces months after initial infection, Stanford researchers find

The CEHG founding co-director and Stanford professor of biology receives the 2022 Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) Lifetime Achievement Award

Stanford scientists set the first Guinness World Record for the fastest DNA sequencing technique, which was used to sequence a human genome in just 5 hours and 2 minutes

A century of attentive groundskeeping has turned the Stanford campus into a museum of mathematical phylogenetics, says Noah Rosenberg, creator of the Stanford X-Tree Project

Marc Feldman's group offers a theoretical model to capture the movement of fads and tradition in a population

Gill Bejerano and colleagues have devised advanced cryptographic techniques to search for matches while maintaining the genetic privacy of the suspect

CEHG co-director Noah Rosenberg explains why biology, a field once thought relatively removed from mathematics, is quickly becoming a hotbed of computational science

A new look at 14,000 genetic changes since our most recent ancestors shows that differences in gene activation– not just genetic code– may underlie evolution of the brain and voice

Hank Greely clarifies the implications of the new biomedical technologies after the first CRISPR babies in 2018

This research, now published in PLOS Computational Biology, features a new model of disease spread describing how competing economic and health incentives influence social contact—

A new study in Molecular Biology and Evolution from Liz Hadly's group at Stanford and others reveals the lasting genetic impacts of increased isolation among different tiger popula

This recent piece by Maciej Boni, now associate professor at Penn State and a leading epidemic modeler, is very sobering. Boni is a former Ph.D. student of CEHG co-director Marcus