A 4,500-year-old burial in Middle Egypt has reshaped what scientists know about ancient Egyptian origins. Inside a sealed ...

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic material from the ground up. It's an ambitious and controversial project ...

After 10 years, members of the 4D Nucleome consortium have successfully completed the first phase of a project that aims to ...

Scientists have stored the entire human genome on a five-dimensional crystal that’s capable of digitally storing up to 360 terabytes of information and is built to survive for billions of years. The ...

In a breakthrough that redefines both speed and clinical potential, a new world record for the fastest human whole genome sequencing has been set. Think of all the things that can be done in four ...

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

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