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

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

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

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

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

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 medical center brought Evans to North Texas for a few years in the mid-1990s as part of the international project to sequence a full human genome. He and his lab, transplanted from the Salk ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in 2001, the Human Genome Project gave us a nigh-complete readout of our DNA. Somehow, those As, Gs, Cs, and Ts contained the full instructions for making one of us, but they were hardly a ...