A new study shows, for the first time, how the human genome folds and moves in 3D over time to control when genes turn on and ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

Learn how ancient DNA from human remains provided the first direct evidence that a common childhood virus has been part of ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

Every cell in the body holds a story written in three billion letters. For decades, scientists struggled to translate that code into something they understood and could use. On a sunny Santa Cruz ...

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 ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have revealed previously unappreciated roles for the retrotransposon LINE ...

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received two large grants renewing funding for the Human Pangenome Reference Sequencing Project. This ambitious program began in 2019 with the ...

How fast does the human genome change? Scientists have attempted to answer this question by studying mutation rates over several generations, and they found that some parts of the human genome tend to ...