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 ...

The non-coding genome, once dismissed as "junk DNA", is now recognized as a fundamental regulator of gene expression and a key player in understanding complex diseases. Following the landmark ...

The Human Genome Project (HGP) deciphered the entirety of the human genetic code in just over a decade. Though science and medicine will take some time to sift through all of this information and make ...

In the second keynote talk in GEN’s “The State of Multiomics and NGS” virtual summit, originally broadcast on April 23, 2025, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, former Director at National Institutes of Health ...

HGP Enters Final Phase: Even as the Human Genome Project (HGP) enters its final phase, which officially began May 9, perhaps the most fundamental bit of genomic trivia persists: Exactly how many human ...

J. Craig Venter, who has died aged 79, was known as the “alpha male of US science”, shaking up the race to map the human ...

Within the next 25 years, China may become the first country in the world to build a nationwide genomic database covering its entire population, as futurist and Wired founding executive editor Kevin ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote. Twenty-five ...

John Craig Venter, the scientist who led the human genome sequencing race and opened the door to synthetic biology, died at ...

By attempting to commercialise parts of the human genome, he sped up the development of gene sequencing technologies ...

J. Craig Venter, a biologist and entrepreneur who helped shape the modern field of genomics, died on April 29, 2026, at 79 following unexpected side effects from treatment of a recently diagnosed ...