A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

What if you could precisely change the genome of a pre-implantation human embryo and then safely use that embryo to try to ...

Throughout human ecological history, we have played a variety of roles within ecosystems around the world. In this so-called ...

Researchers at Hebrew University use RNA trans-splicing to program cells for disease detection ...

A gene can vanish, and life can go on. That is one of the most striking lessons from a sweeping new analysis of 173,303 ...

In a breakthrough that redefines both speed and clinical potential, a new world record for the fastest human whole genome sequencing has been set. Think of all the things that can be done in four ...

Understanding human gene function in living organisms has long been hampered by fundamental differences between species. Although mice share most protein-coding genes with humans, their regulatory ...

Studies of genetics conducted in yeast cells, human neurons, mice or other model systems often reveal networks of genes that ...

Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small handful of people. Building upon its success, the 1000 Genomes Project was ...

Utz is a science communicator, public historian, and archivist, formerly at the National Human Genome Research Institute. I’d be willing to bet that most of the U.S. population above the age of 35 has ...