The study, published in Volume 153, Issue 9 of the journal Development on May 14, 2026, by The Company of Biologists, is the ...

Many repetitive regions of the genome have been considered "junk DNA" because the available technologies did not allow them ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School have developed a new method called PARTAGE that provides a clearer picture of how the genome is regulated and disrupted in diseases like ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that little-studied DNA structures play a central role in organizing the human genome and controlling gene activity, according to a new study published ...

While a strand of human DNA is approximately 6.5 feet long, it is folded into a cell nucleus that is only 10 micrometers in ...

A decade on from the launch of an ambitious project, it’s time to revisit the reasons for constructing a human genome from ...

Twenty-five years ago today, on July 7, 2000, the world got its very first look at a human genome — the 3 billion letter code that controls how our bodies function. Posted online by a small team at ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications titled, “The reference genome of the human diploid cell line RPE-1,” researchers from University of Rome La Sapienza have produced the first reference ...

In science, whether an anomaly is insignificant or the basis for a promising new field of study can boil down to the catchiness of its name. Pick the wrong one, and conferences are hard to organise ...

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 ...