2007 First full genome map of a single human Assembled from scratch by decoding the complete DNA sequence of one person, 60-year-old Dr. Venter, the former head of Celera Genomics.

Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small ...

An international team of scientists has decoded some of the most stubborn, overlooked regions of the human genome using complete sequences from 65 individuals across diverse ancestries. The study, ...

Quirks and Quarks · Q&A Scientists sequence complete, gap-free human genome for the first time First full sequence of the roughly 3 billion chemical elements that make up our DNA.

Two studies using long-read sequencing have revealed over 167,000 structural variants across global populations, doubling ...

A process known as whole genome sequencing helps identify what's causing an illness. The technique allows the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to determine the complete DNA sequence of an organism ...