For many decades humans have pursued work to characterise the human genome. Today, publicly available references to genome sequences are available and have been instrumental in effecting recent ...

Mistakes in the paper version of the Encyclopædia Britannica took a long time to correct – years often passed between revised editions – but these days editing information is much easier. In ...

You may have seen or heard references to the human genome. But what is a genome, and why is knowing about it important to your health? This question and others were answered during “Learning About ...

What the human genome is lacking compared with the genomes of other primates might have been as crucial to the development of humankind as what has been added during our evolutionary history, ...

We mapped the human genome decades ago, but most of it is still a black box. Now, UNSW scientists have developed a tool to peer inside and what they find could reshape how we think about disease.

Waking up this morning to news of the much-deserved Nobel Prize win for Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing" confirms the importance ...

When scientists first cracked the human genome, they expected to find treasure such as genes that would explain life, health, ...

Genomic testing is one method your doctor can use to predict how your cancer will grow and which treatments might work best against it. It's sometimes called "DNA sequencing." The test looks at ...

Scientists can now sequence an entire genome overnight. This technology has been the key tool in identifying and tracking Covid variants. Unlocking the Covid Code By Jon Gertner Edward Holmes was ...