Utz is a science communicator, public historian, and archivist, formerly at the National Human Genome Research Institute. I’d be willing to bet that most of the U.S. population above the age of 35 has ...

PacBio has announced its participation in the 1000 Genomes Long Read Sequencing Project, contributing long-read transcriptome data to enhance this significant human genomics initiative. Through ...

A comprehensive analysis of 173,303 genomes from Pakistan, published today in Nature, is upending how scientists understand ...

Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small handful of people. Building upon its success, the 1000 Genomes Project was ...

As the Human Cell Atlas project marks its 10th anniversary, a leader's ties to a major single-cell RNA sequencing company ...

A comprehensive analysis of 173,303 genomes from Pakistan, published today in Nature, is upending how scientists understand ...

The first phase of the U.K. synthetic human genome project has successfully completed, realizing key steps in chromosome synthesis. The work has demonstrated a multistep method for transfecting mouse ...

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 ...

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

J. Craig Venter was a pioneer in the fields of human genomics and synthetic biology, pursuits that both put him in the spotlight and earned him the label of “controversial.” “Craig was a divisive ...

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human ...

New technological advancements have allowed us to look at the entire human genome. The genome is the complete set of genetic information encoded in the DNA. Human DNA has around three billion letters ...