For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

An team of scientists found a family of genome sequences known as “transposable elements.” They play a vital role in gene expression.

The research solved for 92% of missing data in the human genome. And it mapped genomic variation across ancestries to a degree not reached before.

Human genome in its natural state before HSV-1 infection. Credit: Esther Gonzalez Almela and Álvaro Castells García The human genome compacted eight hours after being infected with HSV-1.

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 group of scientists in the United Kingdom are making synthetic human DNA from scratch in a world's first.

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic material from the ground up. It's an ambitious and controversial ...

Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now tackling the synthesis of human DNA (in other words, the creation of an ...

A new Yale study advances the ability of genome engineers to edit multiple DNA sites by threefold, and helps prevent unwanted mutations in the process.

New AI tool illuminates 'dark side' of the human genome by Salk Institute edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

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 ...

An international team of scientists a family genome sequences known as “transposable elements,” and found they play a vital role in gene expression.