Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Scientists say the map of a speck of a mouse's brain could be as transformative as the Human Genome Project. Here's what to know.

Who really won the race to decode the human genome? Inside the cut-throat competition that pushed forward the decoding of the human genome.

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A group of scientists in the United Kingdom are making synthetic human DNA from scratch in a world's first.

We mapped the human genome decades ago, but most of it is still a black box. Now, UNSW scientists have developed a tool to ...

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

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

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote. Twenty-five ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as “junk,” thought to serve no real purpose. In a new study in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University show that the repetitive part of ...

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic material from the ground up. It's an ambitious and controversial ...

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an ...