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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain ...

An international team of researchers have significantly expanded the catalogue of known human genetic variation. The ...

New collaborative research by UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory decodes the most elusive, difficult-to-sequence regions ...

Since the Human Genome Project first produced the genetic instructions for a human being by sequencing DNA 22 years ago, ...