The Earth BioGenome Project is racing to sequence the DNA of life, building a global genome library to protect biodiversity.

When scientists make predictions, they sometimes seem wild, almost beyond the realm of possibility. Yet, over the years, many ...

It's an ambitious and controversial project called the Synthetic Human Genome (SynHG) project, and work has already begun on a proof-of-concept.

A study identifies a particular human-accelerated region, or HAR, of the human genome that promotes an advanced human trait ...

From the mighty blue whale to the humble baker’s yeast, scientists have barely begun to understand the vast genetic diversity ...

The NHGRI's original purpose was to support the Human Genome Project, the precursor to the T2T Consortium that aimed to generate the first sequence of the human genome. In 2003, the Human Genome ...

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 ...

Campus News Keck Foundation awards UC Santa Cruz $2 million for human genome variation project The Human Genome Variation Map being developed by the UCSC Genomics Institute will be a valuable new ...

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

A new genome-wide study uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in ...