Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now ...

The human genome contains roughly 3 billion nucleotides and just under 20,000 protein-coding genes – an estimated 1% of the genome’s total length. The remaining 99% is non-coding DNA sequences ...

Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of a roundworm used extensively in biological research, opening a new pathway ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

A Ph.D. student in biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has built a software program ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full synthetic human genomes, wary of propelling us into a dystopian, Gattaca ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had genetic ties with Mesopotamian DNA.

The human genome would extend a mere 6-1/2 feet (2 meters). The fern grows primarily on the ground or atop fallen tree trunks in New Caledonia, about 750 miles (1,200 km) east of Australia, and on ...