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

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, ...

One person's junk is another's treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of "junk" DNA that were ...

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

Scientists used diverse genomes to complete a fuller human DNA map. This unlocks hidden risks and improves diagnoses.

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

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

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

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 ...

But here’s the surprise: About 70 percent of that reference genome comes from a single man in Buffalo, New York, whose DNA was sequenced during the 1990 to 2003 Human Genome Project, the first ...