The human genome contains roughly 3 billion nucleotides and just under 20,000 protein-coding genes – an estimated 1% of the genome’s total length. The remaining 99% is non-coding DNA sequences ...

Launched in 1990, a major goal of the Human Genome Project was to sequence the human genome as fully as possible. In 2003, project scientists unveiled a genome sequence that accounted for over 90% ...

The earliest iteration of the claim that Snopes can identify dates to a 2001 PBS Nova episode about the Human Genome Project. In that episode, however, the phrasing is different.

Dr. Eric Green, now director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, said the decision to declare the project finished in 2003 came down to the fact that scientists had completed all they ...

Now, the Wellcome Trust, the world’s largest medical charity, has coughed up about $11.7 million (£10 million) to kickstart the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG).

The H. influenzae incident was bad enough for those running the official project. That Dr Venter might repeat it with a genome 1,700 times bigger would be even more embarrassing.

At this stage, the SynHG project is focused on developing foundational tools and methods, and the organizers admit it will likely take decades to synthesize an entire human genome. For now, the goal ...

This new genome map tries to capture all human genetic variation After more than 20 years of claiming they completed the human genome project, researchers have announced yet another version of the ...

Impact of mapping the human genome on the patient-physician relationship / Albert R. Jonsen -- Educating clinicians about genetics / Vincent M. Riccardi -- Medicine, gene therapy, and society / ...

To piece together this history, Undark examined more than 100 emails, letters, and other documents, and interviewed many of the Human Genome Project's central figures.

The many genomes we have sequenced are far from complete – in fact, the single reference genome was only 92 per cent complete when the Human Genome Project was declared “complete”.