Over thirty years ago, a group of international researchers set a bold goal: to create a map of the DNA code that makes up the human genome. Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of UK-based researchers is going where no scientist has dared to go—writing artificial human DNA from scratch. They’re hoping the project will answer fundamental questions about the human ...

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