The entire human genome requires three gigabytes of computer data storage space. (One million base pairs of sequence data ...

Utz is a science communicator, public historian, and archivist, formerly at the National Human Genome Research Institute. I’d be willing to bet that most of the U.S. population above the age of 35 has ...

The Human Genome Project changed everything. A map of the entire human sequence of DNA was the starting point for an enormous number of discoveries, from disease genes to how humans evolved. But DNA ...

From Avery’s genetic material discovery to the Human Genome Project’s 3 billion base pairs, major life-science advances faced Nobel limits on co-authorship and timing ...

Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small handful of people. Building upon its success, the 1000 Genomes Project was ...

A review in the Journal of Systematics and Evolution defines the standards for high-quality genome assembly and annotation, ...

Draft genomes generated using more affordable second-generation sequencing technologies could be assembled for a larger number of species, but these were of lower quality because they were highly ...

The announcement of the first draft of the human genome 25 years ago was a pivotal moment that transformed the life sciences. It provided the foundational blueprint for understanding human biology and ...

A team of UK-based researchers is going where no scientist has dared to go—writing artificial human DNA from scratch. They’re hoping the project will answer fundamental questions about the human ...

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic eukaryotic genome in a Nature Biotechnology paper. Their insights could ...