You may have seen or heard references to the human genome. But what is a genome, and why is knowing about it important to your health? This question and others were answered during “Learning About ...

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 ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

It is still not fully understood how, despite having the same set of genes, cells turn into neurons, bones, skin, heart, or roughly 200 other kinds of cells, and then exhibit stable cellular behavior ...

To many, the genome is a puzzle—a many-sided puzzle whose meaning stretches across your life, your children's, and your family's. To many, the genome is a puzzle—a many-sided puzzle whose meaning ...

NIH funding has allowed scientists to see the DNA blueprints of human life—completely. In 2022, the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium, a group of NIH-funded scientists from research institutions around ...

Thomas Gingeras did not intend to upend basic ideas about how the human body works. In 2012 the geneticist, now at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York State, was one of a few hundred colleagues ...

The first phase of the U.K. synthetic human genome project has successfully completed, realizing key steps in chromosome ...

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the ‘dark genome’ that are responsible for controlling how cells sense and respond to the ...

Rodrigo Duarte received funding from the National Institutes of Health, USA. Douglas Nixon receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, USA. Timothy Powell receives funding from the ...