The human genome contains approximately 1,600 types of transcription factors responsible for regulating gene activity across ...

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

With a rate of mutation 35 percent higher than random chance, this previously unknown weakness could be a major vector for ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

The first phase of the U.K. synthetic human genome project has successfully completed, realizing key steps in chromosome ...

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 ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Sequencing diverse populations revealed over 41,000 transcripts missing in Eurocentric references, exposing ancestry bias ...