Scientists have stored the entire human genome on a five-dimensional crystal that’s capable of digitally storing up to 360 terabytes of information and is built to survive for billions of years. The ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

Did you know that a 5,700-year-old piece of gum held an entire human genome sequence, and that the Mona Lisa has a mailbox for fan mail?

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 ...

Genetic variants that cause rare disorders may remain elusive even after expansive testing, such as exome sequencing. The diagnostic yield of genome sequencing, particularly after a negative ...

To many, the genome is a puzzle—a many-sided puzzle whose meaning stretches across your life, your children's, and your family's. To many, the genome is a puzzle—a many-sided puzzle whose meaning ...

A study published today in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, ...