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

In its effort to correlate genomic structure with gene function, the 4D Nucleome Consortium (4DN), led by Job Dekker, Ph.D., ...

The research represents a major step forward in revealing how the three dimensional form of DNA shapes the way human biology functions. In a major step toward understanding how the physical form of ...

Trained on 9.7 trillion tokens of evolutionary data, EDEN designs therapeutics from large gene insertion to antimicrobial peptides.

Nearly a year after leaving his position as longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Eric ...

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 ...

It's long been assumed that as cells divide in the human body, the genome is faithfully replicated in the resulting daughter cells. While errors are known to arise, there is machinery in the cell that ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

Brazil’s oldest people may be revealing hidden biological secrets behind extreme human longevity. A Viewpoint published on January 6 in Genomic Psychiatry by Dr. Mayana Zatz and colleagues at the Huma ...

A Viewpoint published in Genomic Psychiatry by Dr. Mayana Zatz and colleagues at the Human Genome and Stem Cell Research ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...