Around 45 percent of human DNA is made up of transposable elements, or TEs—genetic leftovers from now-extinct viruses that ...

Proteins sustain life as we know it, serving many important structural and functional roles throughout the body. But these large molecules have cast a long shadow over a smaller subclass of proteins ...

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

Hibernating animals' amazing abilities could lie within our own DNA—and perhaps their resilience could one day be ours too.

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

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

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

Scientists used diverse genomes to complete a fuller human DNA map. This unlocks hidden risks and improves diagnoses.

A new study identifies two genes tied to brain size and synapse function, hidden in hard-to-sequence DNA repeats. Using ...

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