Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

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 ...

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

The human genome contains approximately 1,600 types of transcription factors responsible for regulating gene activity across ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

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 ...

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 ...