An team of scientists found a family of genome sequences known as “transposable elements.” They play a vital role in gene ...

New method of analysis reveals that transposable elements (TEs), which make up 45% of the human genome, play a crucial role ...

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, ...

Since the Human Genome Project first produced the genetic instructions for a human being by sequencing DNA 22 years ago, ...

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

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

One person's junk is another's treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of "junk" DNA that were ...

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

Sanjana discusses the large question his lab is trying to answer: "How can we efficiently identify which regions or genome drive disease?" ...

And, he pointed out, fewer than 2 percent of human genome sequences come from individuals in sub-Saharan Africa. In the new paper, the researchers put the tool into action onto a variety of ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain ...