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

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

hLife adopts format-free submission. Format-free submission means that, provided you include everything necessary for review ...

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

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 ...

The first phase of the U.K. synthetic human genome project has successfully completed, realizing key steps in chromosome synthesis. The work has demonstrated a multistep method for transfecting mouse ...

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 ...

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

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received two large grants renewing funding for the Human Pangenome Reference Sequencing Project. This ambitious program began in 2019 with the ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...