There is growing enthusiasm in the scientific community about the prospect of mapping and sequencing the human genome, a monumental project that will have far-reaching consequences for medicine, ...

Eight years on from the formation of the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium, which set out with the hugely ambitious task of ...

An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 ...

The Human Cell Atlas project maps human cells to understand biology, address global health disparities, and advance ...

An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, ...

What effect will mapping the genome have on people and society? Will this genetic information be used to discriminate against those with genetic predispositions? Will people decide to alter human ...

Figuring out its origins hasn't been any easier for geneticists who are turning to high-throughput, genome-wide association studies for clues. At first glance, the inheritance of human height ...

The cascade of genetic discoveries and biotechnological innovations over the past half-century, culminating with the recent completion of the map of the human genome, will clearly and profoundly ...

J. Craig Ventor, the man responsible for successfully mapping the human genome, is applying his significant brain power to the area of alternative fuels. The geneticist is behind a new start-up called ...

“I want to turn anatomy of the structure of the brain into what we did for the genome,” Kasthuri said. A scientist at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, he believes a map of ...

But the human genome also contains more than 50,000 unusual ... Published today in The EMBO Journal is the first comprehensive map of these unique DNA structures, shedding light on their potential ...