The Human Genome Project was an international research project that sequenced all of the genes found in humans. This ambitious project began in 1990 and concluded in 2003.

Researchers have begun working on a new, controversial project to produce human DNA from scratch. It is believed to be the ...

The human genome contains roughly 3 billion nucleotides and just under 20,000 protein-coding genes – an estimated 1% of the genome’s total length. The remaining 99% is non-coding DNA sequences ...

The much-heralded Human Genome Project was a huge milestone for science, ... It’s the subject of four studies published Wednesday in the journals Nature and Nature Biotechnology.

Scientists have pieced together a new draft of the human genome that better captures humanity’s genetic diversity. The new “pangenome” incorporates the DNA of 47 individuals from every ...

Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.

Who really won the race to decode the human genome? Inside the cut-throat competition that pushed forward the decoding of the ...

Scientists have pieced together a new draft of the human genome that better captures humanity’s genetic diversity. The new “pangenome” incorporates the DNA of 47 individuals from every ...