“Science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.” – François Rabelais ...

An ambitious new research project, SynHG (Synthetic Human Genome), is aiming to develop the foundational and scalable tools, technology and methods ...

Scientists with the NIH-backed SMaHT Network are mapping every DNA mutation in the human body, creating a groundbreaking ...

In a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an international research team has successfully sequenced the first whole ancient ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

The cooperation that characterized the international Human Genome Project (HGP) is shifting rapidly towards competition as the project's members vie to decipher the genetic codes of other species ...

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From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

The research is a transformative step toward understanding the condition's genetic underpinnings and potential for ...

Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest resistance and other valuable traits.

J. Craig Venter [Photo by Heather Kowalski] June 26, 2025, is the 25th anniversary of the White House announcement of the first sequencing of the human genome, and July 28, 2025, marks the 30th ...