Science Articles Ponder What It Means to Be Human, Transcriptomic Analysis of Blood Cells

Dec 20, 2019

While the human genome is considered by some as defining what it is to be "human," the vast diversity of human genomes, as well as the overlap between human and non-human genomes, hinders efforts to nail down the legal definition of a human, researchers from McGill University and Stanford University write in Science this week.

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