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 ...

Ancient viruses left a legacy in your DNA. And it turns out, that legacy may be helping shape who you are. A recent ...

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

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

Hibernating animals' amazing abilities could lie within our own DNA—and perhaps their resilience could one day be ours too.

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain ...

But that original map, known as a reference genome, was based on about 20 individuals. It didn't capture the diversity of the human population and could lead to blind spots in biomedical research.

The Human Genome Project cost $450 million to execute, this recent research cost a few million, and Phillippy said he hopes that sequencing an individual’s genome can become a routine medical ...

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 ...

An artist's illustration of the human genome, with its iconic DNA double helix, partly made up of human genes. The project proposes using chemicals to create the DNA present in the human genome.