The human genome sequence generated by the private genomics ... There are 100 trillion (100,000,000,000,000) cells in your body. There are three billion (3,000,000,000) base pairs in the DNA ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

Researchers have successfully employed an algorithm to identify potential mutations which increase disease risk in the noncoding regions our DNA, which make up the vast majority of the human genome.

Most cells in the human body each contain about six feet of DNA. Yet the nucleus, where DNA is coiled, is no larger than a ...

Research into transcription factors deepen understanding of the 'language' of the genome, offering insights into human development.

New research has uncovered more about the complexity of human gene regulation by identifying certain sequences of proteins called transcription factors that bind to DNA and regulate the expression of ...

“It shows that the contribution [of hominin DNA] is substantial and is larger than I assumed when we first discovered that these extinct hominins had mixed with modern human ancestors ... “This study ...

Coupling of these 'enrichment' approaches to high-throughput sequencing technologies promises to deliver a huge body of information ... coding exons from the human genome, and one of them 4 ...

Treyson Wallace was diagnosed with Argonaut syndrome at the Undiagnosed Disease Program at UW-Madison's Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine.

The hospital's whole-genome sequencing lab was launched in September and announced publicly on March 11. Since then, the lab has run sequencing for about 3,500 people, helping clinicians to ...

The Federal Ethics Commission for Non-Human Biotechnology said techniques like CRISPR-Cas9, a genome-editing tool that alters the DNA of crops, would likely have a limited impact on alleviating ...