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Insight into African American ancestry
New approach to genetic ancestry developed by Stanford researchers provides estimates of the number of African and European genealogical ancestors in typical family trees.
July 10, 2023
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‘Two-Eyed Seeing’ off the California coast
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
March 22, 2023
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Stanford researcher sees evolutionary math in March Madness basketball
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?
March 13, 2023
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Stanford geneticist talks about the value of personal medical data
Michael Snyder speaks on Stanford Engineering's "The Future of Everything" podcast
March 03, 2023
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Gene identified that governs defensive spines in stickleback fish
Finding by Stanford researchers supports the concept of progressive evolution in nature
September 01, 2022
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New findings on long COVID lingering in the gut
People with mild to moderate COVID-19 can shed viral RNA in their feces months after initial infection, Stanford researchers find
April 13, 2022
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Marcus Feldman is honored by the SSE
The CEHG founding co-director and Stanford professor of biology receives the 2022 Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) Lifetime Achievement Award
March 30, 2022
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Fastest DNA sequencing technique helps undiagnosed patients find answers in mere hours
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
January 12, 2022
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Stanford professor spotlights evolutionary tree concepts with campus trees
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
December 07, 2021
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Modeling the role of conformity and anti-conformity
Marc Feldman's group offers a theoretical model to capture the movement of fads and tradition in a population
September 07, 2021
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Cryptography can preserve genetic privacy in criminal DNA profiling
Gill Bejerano and colleagues have devised advanced cryptographic techniques to search for matches while maintaining the genetic privacy of the suspect
June 30, 2021
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How biology is becoming more mathematical
CEHG co-director Noah Rosenberg explains why biology, a field once thought relatively removed from mathematics, is quickly becoming a hotbed of computational science
May 03, 2021
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Stanford study dives deeper into genetic differences between modern and archaic humans
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
April 26, 2021
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CRISPR People and Designer Babies
Hank Greely clarifies the implications of the new biomedical technologies after the first CRISPR babies in 2018
April 21, 2021
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New paper models behavior changes during epidemics
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—
February 19, 2021
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Tiger populations may require 'genetic rescue'
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
February 18, 2021
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How Big Will the Coronavirus Be? An Epidemiologist Updates His Concerns
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
March 09, 2020
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April 16, 2019
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Program for Conservation Genomics releases new research on empowering conservation practice
Congratulations to the new Program for Conservation Genomics (PCG), directed by Dmitri Petrov and hosted by Stanford CEHG, for the pre-print release of their research on "Empowerin
June 20, 2018
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Stanford nectar research sheds light on ecological theory
Different species almost always coexist – whether it’s big animals on the plains, bugs in a jungle or yeasts in flower nectar – but how that works is complicated. Now, Stanford res
June 11, 2018