The University of California, Santa Cruz, has played a key role in an international project to catalog all of the biologically functional elements in 1 percent of the human genome. The results of the ...

Explore the decades-long journey to map the full human genome, from early breakthroughs to the first complete, gapless DNA ...

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...

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Leading Genetic Alliance’s global genomics strategy iHope demonstrates what is possible when we connect cutting-edge ...

Ribosomal RNA (rRNA), made from many copies of ribosomal DNA (rDNA), is the core component that powers ...

Scientists have revealed parts of the genome that are especially vulnerable to mutations that occur very early on in development. These areas are in the initial portions of genes, where the cell tends ...

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 ...

Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the host's cellular machinery to make new copies of themselves. Herpes simplex ...

Viruses can't survive on their own, and need a host cell to generate more viral particles and spread. So viruses can often manipulate the functions of cells they infect. Researchers have now shown ...

Utz is a science communicator, public historian, and archivist, formerly at the National Human Genome Research Institute. I’d be willing to bet that most of the U.S. population above the age of 35 has ...