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 ...

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

Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

The Human Genome Project, presented in its final form 10 years ago this month, opened up a Pandora’s box of boggling complexity.

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 ...

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.