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

In a comprehensive Genomic Press Interview published in Brain Medicine, Dr. Michael C. Oldham shares his unconventional journey from advertising executive to computational neuroscientist and his ...

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

New Delhi: In what could mark a turning point in modern biology, a team of scientists in the UK has officially begun work on building human DNA from scratch. Backed by a £10 million grant from ...

My job was to preserve and provide access to the records of the Human Genome Project, for which NHGRI was created in 1988 to lead at the NIH. Since 2012, my colleagues and I have managed a digital ...

This project, as well as its continuation by the T2T Consortium, has made medicine more preventative and treatments more personalized. For example, by knowing which gene mutations cause certain ...

When my box of handwritten letters and cards becomes too full, I start another one. Maybe there’s a morbid element to my adoration for keeping pieces of people’s handwriting.

In 1990, governments around the world, with the leadership of the United States, began a 13-year effort to map human DNA through the Human Genome Project (HGP). I believe we can achieve such ...

A decade ago, researchers sequenced 92 percent of the human genome. They just cracked the last 8 percent — a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for cancer and other diseases.

The Human Genome Project (HGP), the world's largest collaborative biological project, was a 13-year effort led by the U.S. government with the goal of generating the first full sequence of the ...

The Human Pangenome Reference Consortium has announced the first draft of a human ‘pangenome’, which incorporates DNA data from 47 individuals. The Human Pangenome Reference Consortium has used ...