Explore the decades-long journey to map the full human genome, from early breakthroughs to the first complete, gapless DNA ...

Scientists are celebrating DNA Day, marking the completion of the human genome project in 2003. The project successfully ...

Gene editing has emerged as a powerful approach for targeting the genetic causes of disease, but getting the editing ...

Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the host's cellular machinery to make new copies of themselves. Herpes simplex ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists pored over the ...

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...

The University of California, Santa Cruz, has played a key role in an international project to catalog all of the biologically functional elements in 1 percent of the human genome. The results of the ...

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 ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

Twenty-five years ago this week, President Bill Clinton stood before a podium in the East Room of the White House, and, in front of an all-star lineup of researchers and dignitaries, made a historic ...

UC Santa Cruz has a long history of pioneering advances in genomics research. The first working draft of a human genome sequence was assembled on our campus in 2000, which has led to enormous leaps in ...