Researchers have assembled the first telomere-to-telomere, diploid phased genome from a single human cell line ...

Scientists have reconstructed the complete genome of a real person, with full sets of chromosomes from each parent, a ...

A new era has opened in which both sets of chromosomes inherited from one’s parents can be completely decoded. So-called ...

HG002, a near-perfect diploid human genome benchmark that is free of detectable errors across 99.4% of the genome and ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

J. Craig Venter, PhD, left, President Bill Clinton, and Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, The White House, June 26, 2000. [Mark Wilson/Newsmakers/Getty Images] The announcement of the first draft of the ...

(Alones Creative/iStock/Getty Images) One of the most iconic visual representations in biological science is the double helix ...

Researchers have successfully employed an algorithm to identify potential mutations which increase disease risk in the noncoding regions our DNA, which make up the vast majority of the human genome.

A team of UK-based researchers is going where no scientist has dared to go—writing artificial human DNA from scratch. They’re hoping the project will answer fundamental questions about the human ...

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint for these cells is essentially the same. Where do those differences come ...