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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Human drinking culture may owe a debt to great apes who forage boozy fermented fruit from the forest floor, scientists ...

After decades of glacial progress, the Human Genome Project achieved its 2001 breakthrough by pioneering a method called “shotgun sequencing”, which involved breaking the genome into very ...

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 Human Genome Project truly has changed the scientific landscape, but we’re still only at the very beginning of seeing the world that it’s made possible.