Explore the decades-long journey to map the full human genome, from early breakthroughs to the first complete, gapless DNA ...

Waking up this morning to news of the much-deserved Nobel Prize win for Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing" confirms the importance of ...

A pair of papers published this week in the two leading scientific journals mark the completion of the Human Genome Project and the start of a new project to find all of the functional elements in ...

Another challenge is that whole-genome sequencing generates a tsunami of data. It would take a genetic counsellor some five hours to explain what a typical genome means, further adding to the true ...