A pair of papers published this week in the two leading scientific journals mark the completion of the Human Genome Project and the start of a new project to find all of the functional elements in ...

“While the rest of the genome shuffles between the maternal and paternal origins, centromeres are inherited intact: one from ...

Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient ...

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 ...

Researchers have found that nearly three-quarters of the population carry newly identified genetic elements called Inocles, which may influence oral health, immunity, and cancer risk. Researchers at t ...

Around 8 percent of human DNA is made up of genetic sequences acquired from ancient viruses. These sequences, known as human endogenous retroviruses (or Hervs), date back hundreds of thousands to ...

About a dozen studies in the past five years have made claims linking nearly every type of human cancer with the presence of microbiomes, “communities” of bacteria, viruses and fungi that live in or ...

Researchers including those at the University of Tokyo have made a surprising discovery hiding in people's mouths: Inocles, ...