In the 1990s Venter bet that he could use a sequencing technique to speed up the decoding of the human genome and he beat an ...

Pioneering scientist J. Craig Venter has died at 79. His "whole genome shotgun method" helped genome sequencing become faster ...

Improved analysis adds several microproteins to the human proteome, and suggests a path toward identifying thousands more ...

New research shows that the same genes are active in pancreatic cancer, obesity and diabetes, helping to explain why people ...

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 ...

Languages and human DNA both capture aspects of human diversity. But how are they related? A new international study led by ...

A gene found in salamanders could one day help humans regrow lost limbs, a breakthrough that sounds like science fiction but ...

New research shows that the same genes are active in pancreatic cancer, obesity and diabetes, helping to explain why people ...

Scientists have uncovered a genetic overlap between people and golden retrievers that helps explain why both species can be so irresistibly social, attentive and eager to connect. Instead of being ...