Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps ...

This full, no-gaps snapshot of the human genome consists of at least 3 billion base pairs of DNA and just under 20,000 protein-encoding genes.

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, research finds.

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In a new study published in the journal l'Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known example of human ...

Long dismissed as ‘junk’, repetitive DNA has now been shown to play a vital role in shaping the developing human brain.

Wojcicki says she’s ‘disappointed’ in the lack of progress around genomics, despite having just crossed a significant milestone, 20 years since the first complete sequencing of the human genome.

Finishing the Human Genome A consortium of researchers announces it’s finally sequenced the complete genome, uncovering more than 100 new genes.

It's one of mankind's biggest achievements - but travelling to space takes a toll on crucial cells in the human body, ...

Beyond calories and nutrients, our diet contains 26,000+ compounds — most unstudied “nutritional dark matter.” ...

When scientists cracked the human genome in 2003—sequencing the entire genetic code of a human being—many expected it would ...