(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabrielle Hartley, University of Connecticut (THE CONVERSATION) When the Human Genome ...

The Human Genome Project was among the most ambitious scientific efforts in modern history, with the aim of deciphering the chemical makeup of the entire human genetic code. The sequence of some 3 ...

The Human Genome Project was a massive undertaking that took more than a decade and billions of dollars to complete. For it, scientists collected DNA samples from anonymous volunteers who were told ...

Big is beautiful. That was the message of post-second-world-war science. The model was the Manhattan Project to build the first atom bombs. When hostilities ended, it continued with larger and larger ...

Dr. Glen Evans brought the Human Genome Project to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the 1990s for only a few years. The project's legacy lives on today in the research of UT ...

The ability to sequence and edit human DNA has revolutionized biomedicine. Now a new consortium wants to take the next step and build human genomes from scratch. The Human Genome Project was one of ...

An effort to expand on the Human Genome Project by capturing the diversity of people around the world has produced the first draft of a new resource called the “pangenome reference”. The pangenome ...

A team of UK-based researchers is going where no scientist has dared to go—writing artificial human DNA from scratch. They’re hoping the project will answer fundamental questions about the human ...

Twenty years ago the Human Genome Project (HGP) unveiled a mostly complete sequence of the roughly 3bn base pairs of DNA found in every set of human chromosomes. The project was chock-full of ego and ...