Across two new papers published Wednesday (July 23) in the journal Nature, scientists sequenced the DNA of 1,084 people ...

Proteins sustain life as we know it, serving many important structural and functional roles throughout the body. But these ...

An international team of scientists has decoded some of the most stubborn, overlooked regions of the human genome using ...

Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome in its entirety. That is, ...

Scientists used diverse genomes to complete a fuller human DNA map. This unlocks hidden risks and improves diagnoses.

It is the story of Chernobyl’s feral dogs, and it begins not with a whimper but with a nuclear boom a boom that, some four decades ago, transformed a thriving village into a zone of exclusion, and ...

People with anxiety or depression show distinct patterns in their gut bacteria, and commonly prescribed psychiatric medications may shift the gut microbiome even more than the disorders themselves.

People have long wondered what life was first like on Earth, and if there is life in our solar system beyond our planet.

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote.

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead ...

Researchers attempted to answer it with a 2023 paper published in the journal Nature that introduced assembly theory (AT), an ...