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 ...

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

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

Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome in its entirety. That is, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

An international team of researchers have significantly expanded the catalogue of known human genetic variation. The ...