Across two new papers published Wednesday (July 23) in the journal Nature, scientists sequenced the DNA of 1,084 people ...

Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome in its entirety. That is, ...

Scientists are now working on something once thought impossible — creating human DNA entirely from scratch using chemicals, ...

An international team of scientists has decoded some of the most stubborn, overlooked regions of the human genome using complete sequences from 65 individuals across diverse ancestries. The study, ...

Scientists have reached a new milestone in decoding the human genome, unlocking complex regions once believed to be too ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian, who lived when the earliest pyramids were built ...

Ethical code Scientists have previously synthesised bacterial genomes and portions of human chromosomes; future advancements could make it possible to generate entire human genomes in a laboratory.

DNA analysis is considered the gold standard for identifying victims of mass fatalities. But how does it work?

Willerslev says his lab’s evolution away from human bones toward much older DNA is intentional. He strongly hints that the team has already beat its own record for the oldest genes, going back ...