Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

The synthetic bacteria contain a shorter genetic code with 57 codons rather than 64, freeing up space for further edits that might lead to new drugs or virus-resistant microbes ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

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.

How New DNA Science Could Help More Families of the Missing Emerging methods are improving the ability to identify even highly degraded human remains.