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 ...

The Human Genome Project truly has changed the scientific landscape, but we’re still only at the very beginning of seeing the world that it’s made possible.

The Human Genome Project was a massive undertaking that took more than a decade and billions of dollars to complete. For it, scientists collected DNA samples from anonymous volunteers who were ...

Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhino, died at a conservation centre in Kenya, aged 45, in 2018. The post Rhino headed for extinction could be revived after genome breakthrough ...

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 ...

"It's like the rhino version of the Human Genome Project." ... For Loring, who's been working on this project since 2007, the new genome is a symbol of what's possible.

The Human Genome Project was about reading DNA, and it sparked an explosion in companies developing tools for DNA sequencing—think of 454, Ion Torrent, Illumina. At Twist, we wanted to do the ...

Then, in 1998, with money from Perkin-Elmer, a scientific-instrument company that was about to launch an upgraded sequencing machine, he set up a rival, private, human genome project, in the shape ...

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.

David Markowitz, a scientist who helped coordinate the project, said the data, published April 9 in the journal Nature marks “a watershed moment for neuroscience, comparable to the Human Genome ...