More than 20 years after the conclusion of the Human Genome Project, Macias and other researchers at Wang Lab in the ...

This month, National Geographic and IBM launched the Genographic Project ... years. The project, led by geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells, aims to collect 100,000 blood samples from ...

The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Thanks to the Human Genome Project, researchers have sequenced all 3.2 billion base pairs in the human genome. How did researchers complete this chromosome map years ahead of schedule? Initial ...

Using a new method of modeling genetic data, researchers identified a split in human ancestry dating back 1.5 million years ... make up as much as 20% of the modern human genome.

New content to mark the publication of the Human Genome Collection are available here alongside links and original articles from the draft genome publication. Enjoy exclusive interviews with ...

Thirty years out from the start of the Human Genome Project, researchers have finally finished sequencing the full 3 billion ... 150-base-pair-long sequences means researchers are working with a ...

According to the study, our ancestors split from a group 1.5 million years ago and rejoined them 300,000 years ago.