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.

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

In the interview, Lloyd M. Smith discusses proteoforms, an area of research worthy of the next Human Genome Project.

A £10 million Wellcome Trust-funded project seeks to create artificial human genomes. Technology Networks explored the ...

Growing interest in health and the exposome—a person's collective environmental exposures—is spurring new funding and research initiatives. Talha Burki reports.

A groundbreaking and highly controversial scientific initiative is now underway in the UK, as leading British researchers aim ...

From reading to building the genome The Human Genome Project allowed scientists to read the entire genetic instruction manual of the human body. Now, researchers want to write it.

The Human Genome Project, which recently completed 25 years, allowed scientists to read all human genes like a bar code. The new DNA project will use it as a launchpad and take the work way beyond.

The project builds on the Human Genome Project, completed 25 years ago, which enabled scientists to read human DNA like a barcode. The new goal goes further: not just to read, but to build sections of ...

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the announcement of the first draft of the Human Genome Project, which allowed scientists to read all human genes like a bar code. The latest research pursuit will ...

The project, dubbed the Synthetic Human Genome Project, is being funded by London -based Wellcome Trust, the World's largest medical charity, with an initial investment of £10 million ...

On 26 June 2000, the first draft of the human genome was announced, a historic achievement that changed the course of science. Now, experts at the Wellcome Sanger Institute are looking ahead to how ...