Understanding human gene function in living organisms has long been hampered by fundamental differences between species.

Scientists first read the human genome, a three-billion-letter biological book, in April 2003. Since then, researchers have steadily advanced the ability to write DNA, moving far beyond single-gene ...

A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the ...

Illumina has named Eric Green as chief medical officer, providing a home to the first National Institutes of Health director ...

Scientists have revealed parts of the genome that are especially vulnerable to mutations that occur very early on in development. These areas are in the initial portions of genes, where the cell tends ...

How fast does the human genome change? Scientists have attempted to answer this question by studying mutation rates over several generations, and they found that some parts of the human genome tend to ...

NIH funding has allowed scientists to see the DNA blueprints of human life—completely. In 2022, the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium, a group of NIH-funded scientists from research institutions around ...

Research co-led by King's College London and Sidra Medicine, Qatar, has produced the most detailed map to date of large-scale ...

A member of the UCSC Braingeneers group talks with symposium attendees about their research with brain organoids. Photo Credit: Anusha Ravishankar. Twenty-five years ago, UC Santa Cruz played a ...

Researchers are now exploring how to best extract and use saliva-derived DNA for long-read sequencing applications. Download ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from archaeological human remains more than two millennia old.

Humanized mouse models are vital for studying human gene function, but fully replacing mouse genes with complete human ...