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In 2003, project scientists unveiled a genome sequence that accounted for over 90% of the human genome — as complete as possible for the technology of the time.
Health Scientists Launch Wild New Project to Build a Human Genome From Scratch The medical charity behind the controversial new plan says the benefits outweigh the risks.
Campus News Twenty-five years after the human genome project, a new era is dawning Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to ...
To piece together this history, Undark examined more than 100 emails, letters, and other documents, and interviewed many of the Human Genome Project's central figures.
Long-term, heritable changes in gene activity fundamentally shape our biology, trigger many of our diseases, and set the clock on how we age. Now, a team of U of U Health scientists is starting an ...
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.
It's an ambitious and controversial project called the Synthetic Human Genome (SynHG) project, and work has already begun on a proof-of-concept.
Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small handful of people. Building upon its success, the 1000 Genomes Project ...
The project was funded in part by the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health and the Wellcome Trust in the U.K. The sequencing centers were joined in the ...
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.