The Human Genome Project, launched in 1990 and completed in 2003, was hailed as a scientific Second Coming. It was said that the sequencing of the genome would enable us to identify faulty genes ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

Back in 2000, after the Human Genome Project’s leaders announced that a working draft of the human genome had been completed, GEN kicked off its coverage of the event by quoting from a New ...

One goal of the project was to accurately sequence the 3 billion nucleotide base pairs in the human genome. A second goal was to map and identify all of the human genes present in the DNA sequence ...

Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.

Right now, we’re focused on certain genetic changes that lead to cancer, and I think this particular field has really been revolutionized by the Human Genome Project,” Findlay said.

One goal of the project was to accurately sequence the 3 billion nucleotide base pairs in the human genome. A second goal was to map and identify all of the human genes present in the DNA sequence ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full synthetic human genomes, wary of propelling us into a dystopian, Gattaca ...

To determine how many genes are in the human genome, researchers first needed to produce a complete genomic sequence. The Human Genome Project (HGP), spanning between 1990-2003, was a publicly funded ...

Researchers have detected some 700 regions of the human genome where genes appear to have been reshaped by natural selection, a principal force of evolution, within the last 5,000 to 15,000 years.

The number of sequenced human genomes will soon swell to more than 1,000 as part of a new international research consortium's effort to trace the potential genetic origins of disease. But first ...