Pioneering scientist J. Craig Venter has died at 79. His "whole genome shotgun method" helped genome sequencing become faster and cheaper.

A cancer cell expressing a 'dark' protein (in red). (Ting Luo/​Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology) A new study has ...

Scientists at Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered that large pieces of DNA ...

How fast does the human genome change? Scientists have attempted to answer this question by studying mutation rates over several generations, and they found that some parts of the human genome tend to ...

Ultima Genomics today announced Francisco De La Vega, DSc, has joined the Company as Vice President, Germline Genomics & Distinguished Scientific Fellow. With over 25 years of leadership experience in ...

D structural model of the human heat shock protein 70. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Scientists thought they had a working map ...

J. Craig Venter, one of the lead scientists in sequencing the human genome and a pioneer of modern genomics, died on Wednesday, his research institute announced.

DZNE researchers have generated new insights into how the human genome shapes the chemical composition and concentration of ...

I n science, whether an anomaly is insignificant or the basis for a promising new field of study can boil down to the ...

Trust is no longer enough: secure data sharing requires international collaboration across institutions and governments.

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 ...

Scientist and medical technology entrepreneur J. Craig Venter published the first bacterial genome ever decoded in 1995. The result heralded a new age of discovery for genetics ...