An international scientific research project with the goal of determining and decoding the total sequence of human DNA. It was declared complete in 2003.
Dame Bridget Ogilvie, a parasitologist and former director of the Wellcome Trust, has died aged 88...
A draft of a new map of the human genome, collated from multiple individuals, has enabled the identification of new genetic variants that had been previously difficult, or impossible, to find...
To celebrate Gregor Mendel's 200th birthday, PET and Genomics England held an event reflecting on what science and medicine have inherited from Mendel and what the future holds regarding our understanding and treatment of genetic disorders in the era of whole genome sequencing...
US President Joe Biden has selected geneticist Professor Eric Lander as his presidential scientific adviser...
The US National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has published a strategic vision describing its research priorities and opportunities in human genomics for the coming decade...
Professor Sue Povey, a leading scientist on the Human Genome Project, has died at the age of 76...
The world is waking up to CRISPR. American media giant CBS sets out to explain to the public what genome editing is — and why it matters — by interviewing some of the top scientists behind the technology...
Personalised medicine is a topic that pops up frequently in the news and has been for what feels like a long time...
A large gap in the DNA sequence of the human genome has now been filled in by researchers in the USA and UK...
Professor Sir John Sulston, a pioneer of human genome research, has died at the age of 75...
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