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 ...

New research suggests that DNA sequences historically considered to be "junk" have had an overlooked role in gene expression ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

In the Human Genome Project, the goal was relatively straightforward: to sequence all 3 billion base pairs. “It’s a little less clear what the endpoint of this project would be,” Porteus said.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian, who lived when the earliest pyramids were built ...