Researchers announced a major scientific milestone–the mapping of the human genome. Dr. Emily Senay explained what this means for science, medicine and humanity. This breakthrough is as ...

The human genome comprises billions of DNA subunits known by the letters A, C, G and T. Genes are strings of these lettered pairs that contain instructions for making proteins.

More information: Sijia Zhang et al, Genome-wide investigation of VNTR motif polymorphisms in 8,222 genomes: Implications for biological regulation and human traits, Cell Genomics (2024). DOI: 10. ...

In completing the rough draft of the genome, researchers in effect assembled a map of all human DNA, much of it distributed in the form of genes along 23 pairs of chromosomes. DNA's chemical ...

A multi-institutional team has created the first high-resolution 4-D map of genome folding, tracking an entire human genome as it folds over time ... the cell is able to change which genes are active.

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

Scientists at the Whitehead Institute have created a map of the DNA loops that comprise the 3D structure of the human genome and regulate gene expression in human embryonic stem (ES) cells and ...

Human genome mapping uncovers 50,000 mysterious ... Researchers have identified and mapped 50,000 i-motifs across the human genome, revealing their role in gene regulation and opening new ...

Mapping the human genome, a billion-dollar project 13 years in the making, has not quite lived up to the hype. A decade after scientists completed mapping the entire DNA sequence of a human being ...

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

These heritable changes make up the “epigenome” —persistent patterns of DNA modifications that don’t alter the underlying gene sequences.. Now, two decades after the Human Genome Project, a team of ...

Here we describe a genome-wide map of active promoters in human fibroblast cells, determined by experimentally locating the sites of PIC binding throughout the human genome.