Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change ...

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication ...

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 ...

Whole-genome sequencing reads every DNA base. This shifts medicine from diagnosing disease based on symptoms to molecular ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

Scientists have revealed parts of the genome that are especially vulnerable to mutations that occur very early on in ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

Saey: My first memory of the Human Genome Project was when I was an undergraduate student at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, and I remember Walter Gilbert, who is a Nobel Prize winner, coming ...

A new study suggests that certain genetic differences, passed down from ancient human ancestors, and exposure to common ...