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

Across two new papers published Wednesday (July 23) in the journal Nature, scientists sequenced the DNA of 1,084 people ...

Around 45 percent of human DNA is made up of transposable elements, or TEs—genetic leftovers from now-extinct viruses that ...

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

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

Hibernating animals' amazing abilities could lie within our own DNA—and perhaps their resilience could one day be ours too.

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

Scientists have reached a new milestone in decoding the human genome, unlocking complex regions once believed to be too ...

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 ...

And, he pointed out, fewer than 2 percent of human genome sequences come from individuals in sub-Saharan Africa. In the new paper, the researchers put the tool into action onto a variety of ...

The work, led by the international Human Pangenome Reference Consortium of scientists funded by the U.S. government's National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), essentially was a reboot of ...