Illumina has named Eric Green as chief medical officer, providing a home to the first National Institutes of Health director ...

Scientists from the 4D Nucleome Consortium at UMass Chan Medical School mapped the human genome in 3D over time, uncovering ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chinese researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-powered virtual drug screening platform that achieves a ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are now tackling the next logical — yet inherently controversial — step: ...

Massive endeavor including Hopkins researchers and students aims to understand the planet's most biodiverse habitats ...

In January 2025, the government of India announced the completion of the GenomeIndia Project, which entailed sequencing the genomes of 10,000 Indians across 83 communities. The project, launched in ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.