The first human genome was mapped in 2001 as part of the Human Genome Project, but researchers knew it was neither complete nor completely accurate. Now, scientists have produced the most completely ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

Filling in genome gaps could help scientists better the genetic basis for certain diseases and lead to new medical discoveries. Kateryna Kon Science Photo Library via Getty Images Around 20 years ago, ...

The research could revolutionize scientists' understanding of human DNA. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have finally ...

Twenty years ago scientists declared the Human Genome Project complete, but eight percent of our genome remained unsequenced and unstudied. Now, the final missing pieces have been revealed, shedding ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered new regions of the human genome particularly vulnerable to mutations. These altered stretches of ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote. Twenty-five ...