Earlier gatherings focused on gaining public acceptance for what scientists want to do with CRISPR. This meeting flipped that ...

DNA's double helix has long stood as the symbol of life’s code. But buried within the genome lies a deeper level of ...

(See illustration.) In 2001, the HGP published a draft human genome sequence to considerable acclaim and excitement. However, as the name implied, this genome was far from a finished product. Firstly, ...

What the human genome is lacking compared with the genomes of other primates might have been as crucial to the development of humankind as what has been added during our evolutionary history, ...

An effort to expand on the Human Genome Project by capturing the diversity ... It is a bit like assembling a skeleton by looking in an anatomy textbook to see where each bone fits.

June 27, 2000 -- Since the announcement of the rough draft of the human genome, the metaphors describing the special accomplishment have been nearly as plentiful as genes yet unmapped: Lewis and ...

An illustration of Svante Pääbo ... looks at finding bits of genetic material from ancient hominid lineages embedded within the modern human genome. The prize committee awarded the prize “for his ...

There are also illustrations of male and female humans ... restored should science in the future allow.” For now, the human genome-encoded “5D memory crystal” is stored in the Memory ...

By adding 119 million bases—the “letters” in DNA sequences—to the existing genomics reference, the pangenome provides a representation of human genetic diversity that was not possible with a single ...

On April 14 2003, scientists announced the end to one of the most remarkable achievements in history: the first (nearly) complete sequencing of a human genome. It was the culmination of a decade ...

It sounds like science fiction, but many scientists believe editing the human genome is key to our advancement across the solar system. This article was originally published at The Conversation.

Dr. Glen Evans brought the Human Genome Project to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the 1990s for only a few years. The project's legacy lives on today in the research of UT ...