We mapped the human genome decades ago, but most of it is still a black box. Now, UNSW scientists have developed a tool to peer inside and what they find could reshape how we think about disease.

An team of scientists found a family of genome sequences known as “transposable elements.” They play a vital role in gene expression.

The virus compacts the human genome's size significantly and moves it towards the edge of the nucleus, freeing up space for the virus to set up a factory for its own purposes.

Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome in its entirety. That is, until today.

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote. Twenty-five ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

A group of scientists in the United Kingdom are making synthetic human DNA from scratch in a world's first.

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic material from the ground up. It's an ambitious and controversial ...

Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now tackling the synthesis of human DNA (in other words, the creation of an ...

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 ...

An international team of scientists a family genome sequences known as “transposable elements,” and found they play a vital role in gene expression.