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

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

The first phase of the U.K. synthetic human genome project has successfully completed, realizing key steps in chromosome ...

Mount Sinai and Israel’s largest medical center are using artificial intelligence to map the hidden corners of the human genome through a deal with computer processing colossus Nvidia. The three-year ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication ...

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 ...

Scientists have revealed parts of the genome that are especially vulnerable to mutations that occur very early on in ...

Researchers have discovered new regions of the human genome particularly vulnerable to mutations. These altered stretches of ...

Whole-genome sequencing reads every DNA base. This shifts medicine from diagnosing disease based on symptoms to molecular ...

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 ...