Finding the missing 8 percent of the human genome gives researchers a more powerful tool to better understand human health, disease and evolution.

How has the human genome project opened up ways to understand all organisms, even the tiniest ones? With these fast sequencing technologies increasingly available, more and larger genomes could be ...

Scientists are mapping and modeling the 4-D human genome to get beyond its linear structure.

Genome science has seen many milestones since the completion of its flagship project to sequence a human genome.

While 92% of the human genome was sequenced in 2003, scientists have struggled to map the remaining 8%. Until now.

A comparison of the thylacine’s genome to other marsupials has revealed that the creatures lost genetic diversity long before ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...