For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Translocations are chromosomal "cut and paste" errors that drive many lymphomas, a type of blood cancer and the sixth most common form of cancer overall. This includes mantle cell lymphoma, a rare but ...

The virus compacts the human genome's size significantly and moves it towards the edge of the nucleus, freeing up space for the virus to set up a factory for its own purposes.

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

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote. Twenty-five ...

Scientists have stored the entire human genome on a five-dimensional crystal that’s capable of digitally storing up to 360 terabytes of information and is built to survive for billions of years ...

A group of scientists in the United Kingdom are making synthetic human DNA from scratch in a world's first.

Who really won the race to decode the human genome? Inside the cut-throat competition that pushed forward the decoding of the human genome.

Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now tackling the synthesis of human DNA (in other words, the creation of an ...