Proteins sustain life as we know it, serving many important structural and functional roles throughout the body. But these ...

Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome in its entirety. That is, ...

An international team of scientists has decoded some of the most stubborn, overlooked regions of the human genome using ...

Researchers used ShortStop to Identify a microprotein that potentially represents a biomarker or functional microprotein for lung cancer.

Scientists have reached a new milestone in decoding the human genome, unlocking complex regions once believed to be too ...

An team of scientists found a family of genome sequences known as “transposable elements.” They play a vital role in gene ...

Across two new papers published Wednesday (July 23) in the journal Nature, scientists sequenced the DNA of 1,084 people ...

On this episode, we look back at how what started as a scientific collaboration fractured into a bitter race to finish decoding the human genome. On one side was the federally funded Human Genome ...

Human drinking culture may owe a debt to great apes who forage boozy fermented fruit from the forest floor, scientists ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian, who lived when the earliest pyramids were built ...

Scientists involved in the Human Genome Project have sequenced about 85 percent of the human genome and continue to generate new sequence data at a rapid pace. Haussler’s group will rerun their ...