The first human genome was mapped in 2001 as part of the Human Genome Project, but researchers knew it was neither complete nor completely accurate. Now, scientists have produced the most completely ...

Filling in genome gaps could help scientists better the genetic basis for certain diseases and lead to new medical discoveries. Kateryna Kon Science Photo Library via Getty Images Around 20 years ago, ...

Twenty years ago scientists declared the Human Genome Project complete, but eight percent of our genome remained unsequenced and unstudied. Now, the final missing pieces have been revealed, shedding ...

Scientists have uncovered thousands of DNA segments that were missing from the reference sequence of the human genome. The Human Genome Project, which concluded in 2003, sought to completely and ...

NIH funding has allowed scientists to see the DNA blueprints of human life—completely. In 2022, the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium, a group of NIH-funded scientists from research institutions around ...

The research could revolutionize scientists' understanding of human DNA. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have finally ...

Researchers have finally deciphered a complete human genetic instruction book from cover to cover. The completion of the human genome has been announced a couple of times in the past, but those were ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote. Twenty-five ...

There is a new record for the largest genome to be sequenced, set at a massive 90 billion letters of DNA. It belongs to the South American lungfish. “It was a technical challenge, of course, to do ...