Researchers now have a powerful new way to understand the types of brain cells that are affected in neurodegenerative diseases and to uncover connections between conditions such as Parkinson's, ...

The first draft of a human “pangenome,” mapping out DNA variations in our genes, has been published. Building on the existing reference genome by adding 1,000 new gene mutations and 120 ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of a roundworm used extensively in biological research, opening a new pathway ...

The first draft of the human genome – our genetic blueprint – was published on 26 June, 2000. It had taken 10 years to sequence that draft. Today, facilities at the Wellcome Sanger Institute can ...

A new and freely available Human Gut Microbiome Atlas could help researchers and health care professionals around the world ...

Who, however, has heard of the Human Cell Atlas? Precious few. Yet its goal resembles the genome project’s. It is to do for histology what was done for genetics by making an exhaustive map of a ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full synthetic human genomes, wary of propelling us into a dystopian, Gattaca ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...