In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Adam Siepel of Cornell University explains why humans and chimpanzees are drastically different despite sharing much of the same DNA. Adam Siepel is an associate ...

The Cleveland Browns breaking their 18-year playoff drought was a dream come true for many, many Browns fans, but it was even more special for Tom Seipel. Siepel, a lifelong Browns fans, is terminally ...

Using supercomputers to compare the human genome with those of other mammals, researchers have discovered some 300 previously unidentified human genes. The discovery is based on the idea that as ...

Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- In 2003, the Human Genome Project revealed to the world the three billion chemical units within human DNA. Since that time, scientists have designed many ways to organize and ...

But it’s one thing to say that Neanderthals interbred with the ancestors of modern Europeans, or that the recently discovered Denisovans interbred with some older mystery group, or that they all ...

HOW WE KNOW HIM: A two-year starting guard at Farmington, as a senior in 2005 he led a .500 team in the regular season all the way to a Class A supersectional appearance. Siepel accepted a scholarship ...

Cold Spring Harbor, NY - There are roughly 20,000 genes and thousands of other regulatory "elements" stored within the three billion letters of the human genome. Genes encode information that is used ...

Even as they've struggled to highlight parts of the human genome worth investigating, scientists have wondered how much they're actually learning through the methods they use. Now, two researchers ...