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

Israel is one of the top-ranked countries in the world in genomic research, he declares. “These are people who lead genomic ...

Sequencing diverse populations revealed over 41,000 transcripts missing in Eurocentric references, exposing ancestry bias ...

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

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

An upcoming conference in Bermuda will shape genomics research for the next 30 years. The Bermuda Principles 30th anniversary ...

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 ...

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

Ultima Genomics, an upstart some observers have called a “dark horse” in the world of DNA sequencing, will soon launch a line of high-power instruments that can read a human genome for as little as ...

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 ...

In the genome, genes that code for protein are often divided into sections called exons, which are separated by spacers called introns. When a region of DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA) or ...