The human genome is no longer just a sequence to be read. It’s a dynamic structure that twists, folds, and reshapes itself in ...

You may have seen or heard references to the human genome. But what is a genome, and why is knowing about it important to your health? This question and others were answered during “Learning About ...

In a landmark effort to understand how the physical structure of our DNA influences human biology, Northwestern investigators ...

After 10 years, members of the 4D Nucleome consortium have successfully completed the first phase of a project that aims to ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

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 ...

Thomas Gingeras did not intend to upend basic ideas about how the human body works. In 2012 the geneticist, now at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York State, was one of a few hundred colleagues ...

Human Genome Sciences Inc., a Rockville biotechnology company, said yesterday that it will abandon an experimental treatment for painful skin sores after the drug failed to prove effective in a large ...