Around 45 percent of human DNA is made up of transposable elements, or TEs—genetic leftovers from now-extinct viruses that ...

Across two new papers published Wednesday (July 23) in the journal Nature, scientists sequenced the DNA of 1,084 people ...

One person's junk is another's treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of "junk" DNA that were ...

Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome in its entirety. That is, ...

An international team of scientists has decoded some of the most stubborn, overlooked regions of the human genome using ...

Scientists have reached a new milestone in decoding the human genome, unlocking complex regions once believed to be too ...

Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small ...

Scientists used diverse genomes to complete a fuller human DNA map. This unlocks hidden risks and improves diagnoses.

Since the Human Genome Project first produced the genetic instructions for a human being by sequencing DNA 22 years ago, ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain ...