Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

Researchers have discovered new regions of the human genome particularly vulnerable to mutations. These altered stretches of DNA can be passed down to future generations and are important for how we ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

The first phase of the U.K. synthetic human genome project has successfully completed, realizing key steps in chromosome ...

Sequencing diverse populations revealed over 41,000 transcripts missing in Eurocentric references, exposing ancestry bias ...

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 ...

The 2025 International Summit on Human Genome Editing called for: • A moratorium on heritable edits until safety and societal consensus are achieved Meanwhile, patients with devastating genetic ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Scientists have pinpointed precise regions in the human genome where DNA is most likely to develop a mutation.