The Human Genome Project was a massive undertaking that took more than a decade and billions of dollars to complete. For it, scientists collected DNA samples from anonymous volunteers who were told ...

When the Human Genome Project announced that they had completed the first human genome in 2003, it was a momentous accomplishment – for the first time, the DNA blueprint of human life was unlocked.

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 ...

Twenty years ago the Human Genome Project (HGP) unveiled a mostly complete sequence of the roughly 3bn base pairs of DNA found in every set of human chromosomes. The project was chock-full of ego and ...

A team of international researchers has finally managed to sequence a complete human genome. The breakthrough comes almost more than three decades after the Human Genome Project, which began in 1990, ...

Twenty years ago scientists declared the Human Genome Project complete, but eight percent of our genome remained unsequenced and unstudied. Now, the final missing pieces have been revealed, shedding ...

Despite decades of advancements in genomics, we still don’t know what most of our DNA does. But an ambitious international research collaboration is providing new answers about how genetics shapes ...

Scientists are finally done mapping the human genome, more than two decades after the first draft was completed, researchers announced Thursday. About 8% of genetic material had been impossible to ...

Several years ago, after an exhaustive search for uncharted variation in the human genome, Evan Eichler stumbled on something extraordinary. Eichler, a geneticist at the University of Washington in ...

On April 14 2003, scientists announced the end to one of the most remarkable achievements in history: the first (nearly) complete sequencing of a human genome. It was the culmination of a decade-plus ...

Cornell researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move within and bind ...