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 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 ...

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 ...

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

The total cost of the Human Genome Project, which concluded in 2003, was about $5 billion in today's dollars. A more complete and accurate result can now be had for about $5,000, a millionfold ...

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 ...

Twenty-two years after the completion of the Human Genome Project, scientists have unveiled the most expansive catalog of human genetic variation ever compiled. Across two new papers published ...

The Human Genome Project was launched in 1990, preceded by decades of breakthroughs in genetics. It eventually gave us a sequence of the human genome. Yet, while the physical rules behind the genome's ...

25 years ago, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, led the international consortium that completed the first draft of the Human Genome Project (HGP), an event marked at an historic White House celebration on ...