Animals are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate. Each day, an estimated 200 species go extinct. Some of the species that have gone extinct were unknown to humans before their demise. To ...

The Genome 10K Community of Scientists and BGI (formerly the Beijing Genomics Institute) of Shenzhen, China, have announced a plan to sequence the genomes of 101 vertebrate species within the next two ...

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint ...

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

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 ...

Seventeen health systems have launched the Truveta Genome Project to create what Truveta is calling the largest and most diverse database of genotypic and phenotypic information ever assembled. The ...

In January 2025, the government of India announced the completion of the GenomeIndia Project, which entailed sequencing the genomes of 10,000 Indians across 83 communities. The project, launched in ...

Utz is a science communicator, public historian, and archivist, formerly at the National Human Genome Research Institute. I’d be willing to bet that most of the U.S. population above the age of 35 has ...

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) can cause certain types of cancer or autoimmune diseases, but how the body controls this common ...

J. Craig Venter, PhD, left, President Bill Clinton, and Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, The White House, June 26, 2000. [Mark Wilson/Newsmakers/Getty Images] The announcement of the first draft of the ...

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) can cause certain types of cancer or autoimmune diseases, but how the body controls this common ...