Proteins sustain life as we know it, serving many important structural and functional roles throughout the body. But these ...

Ancient viruses left a legacy in your DNA. And it turns out, that legacy may be helping shape who you are.

An international team of scientists has decoded some of the most stubborn, overlooked regions of the human genome using ...

Across two new papers published Wednesday (July 23) in the journal Nature, scientists sequenced the DNA of 1,084 people ...

Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome in its entirety. That is, ...

Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small ...

An international team of scientists a family genome sequences known as “transposable elements,” and found they play a vital ...

Scientists have reached a new milestone in decoding the human genome, unlocking complex regions once believed to be too ...

An international team of researchers have significantly expanded the catalogue of known human genetic variation. The ...

New research suggests that DNA sequences historically considered to be "junk" have had an overlooked role in gene expression ...