GEN invited Collins and Venter to offer their reflections on 25 years of genome science (pages 24 and 28, respectively). And ...

With the sequence of the human genome in hand, we have learned that ... but they also beat their own estimated project timeline by two entire years. Perhaps even more importantly, these scientists ...

Twenty years ago, the publication of the first bacterial genome sequence, from Haemophilus influenzae, shook the world of bacteriology. In this Timeline, we review the first two decades of ...

Over the last 10 years, breakthroughs in understanding the genetic instructions passed from parent to offspring have put ...

It took almost twice as long to finish the last 8% of the human genome as it did to sequence the first 92%. New laboratory and computational technologies finally enabled genomic researchers to ...

Molecular clocks are becoming more sophisticated, thanks to improved DNA sequencing ... geneticists are helping to build a more refined timeline of human evolution. Molecular clocks are based ...

Determining the sequence of all those letters used to take vast amounts of money, time, and effort. The Human Genome Project took 13 years and thousands of researchers. The final cost: $2.7 billion.

Most of your DNA will look just like that of any other person. But tiny differences in the spelling or sequence of those letters in thousands of genes across your genome explain, in part ...

These days, much of the team’s research centers around genomic sequencing—the processing of tiny samples of ancient DNA, typically from a piece of fossilized bone. The process can be used to ...

Ultima Genomics, an upstart some observers have called a “dark horse” in the world of DNA sequencing, will soon launch a line of high-power instruments that can read a human genome for as ...

A U.K. program—similar to one launched in New York last fall— will begin genome sequencing on 100,000 babies this year to figure out whether screening newborns for a wide range of conditions ...