Mapping the genetic blueprint for human beings, the completed Human Genome Project unleashed a scientific revolution by providing a base map for all future genetic research.

The human genome contains roughly 3 billion nucleotides and just under 20,000 protein-coding genes – an estimated 1% of the genome’s total length. The remaining 99% is non-coding DNA sequences ...

The previously missing pieces to the human genome could offer insights into aging, diseases such as cancer, as well as human diversity and evolution.

How has the human genome project opened up ways to understand all organisms, even the tiniest ones? With these fast sequencing technologies increasingly available, more and larger genomes could be ...

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 ...

A £10 million Wellcome Trust-funded project seeks to create artificial human genomes. <i>Technology Networks</i> explored the history of synthetic DNA and the societal and ethical implications of this ...