Since it began in 1990, the Human Genome Project is estimated to have cost $3,000,000,000. The entire human genome requires three gigabytes of computer data storage space. (One million base pairs ...

Regeneron, San Diego-based biotech company Illumina and 17 health systems invested in the $320 million round. Regeneron ...

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers are helping to map the landscape of viruses that infect us all, and to analyze the impact they have on human health and disease.

Protein-coding versus noncoding genes When deciding the number of genes in the human genome, Human Genome Project researchers initially counted protein-coding genes—regions of chromosomal DNA that are ...

With 10K genomic data now publicly available, India takes a major leap in genetic research. In today’s 'Knowledge Nugget', ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...

The technology was announced at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. In this project, the stakeholders aim to use a human reference genome to combine with patient data in order to try ...