For decades, biology has been organized around a deceptively simple idea: DNA is transcribed into RNA, RNA is translated into ...

More than two decades after scientists first sequenced the entire human genome—all 3 billion base pairs, of DNA code—the meaning of much of this code remains a mystery.

Variants in genes involved in the production of extracellular matrix molecules could have enabled the skeletal adaptations that distinguish humans from other great apes.

Scientists have built and validated the first custom Infinium DNA methylation array designed specifically to profile the ...

New collaborative research by UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory decodes the most elusive, difficult-to-sequence regions of the genome from populations around the world The new Nature study's ...

Haoyu Cheng, PhD, 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 ...

Human and chimpanzee genomes are more than 98% identical, and the genes themselves barely differ. The changes that make us ...

Some genetic variation in sperm may begin earlier in development than scientists previously recognized. New evidence suggests ...