The genetic information in an organism is called its genome. The Human Genome Project, or HGP for short, was started at the end of the last century. It was very ambitious and had several aims ...

On April 14 2003, scientists announced the end to one of the most remarkable achievements in history: the first (nearly) complete sequencing of a human genome. It was the culmination of a decade ...

Launched in 1990, a major goal of the Human Genome Project was to sequence the human genome as fully as possible. In 2003, project scientists unveiled a genome sequence that accounted for over 90% ...

Dr. Glen Evans brought the Human Genome Project to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the 1990s for only a few years. The project's legacy lives on today in the research of UT ...

Gabrielle Hartley, University of Connecticut (THE CONVERSATION) When the Human Genome Project announced that they had completed the first human genome in 2003, it was a momentous accomplishment ...

The breakthrough comes almost more than three decades after the Human Genome Project, which began in 1990, set out to accomplish this very goal. Now, researchers have the full set of instructions ...

Scientists created the largest functional map of a brain to date using a piece of a mouse's brain. The map details the wiring that connects neurons, offering insight into brain function and ...

Francis Collins talked about the history of federal efforts to map the human genome, interagency and private cooperation on the project, various models and approaches to genome research ...

As early as the 1980s, momentum was gathering behind activities that supported, and would eventually define, the Human Genome Project. Conversations had turned into workshops that likened ...