For years, India’s vast genetic diversity has been overlooked by researchers. Now, the GenomeIndia Project has collected over ...

Comparing the horse genome to the three billion DNA pairs found in the human genome will help researchers learn more about our genetic makeup, the researchers said. It will also h ...

Explore the decades-long journey to map the full human genome, from early breakthroughs to the first complete, gapless DNA sequence.

Advances in human genetics are enabling researchers and clinicians to effectively put together a DNA jigsaw puzzle, without ...

DNA's double helix has long stood as the symbol of life’s code. But buried within the genome lies a deeper level of complexity. One of the more intriguing discoveries in recent years is the i-motif—a ...

From Mendel’s pea plants to modern genome mapping, the science of inheritance reveals how traits, health risks, and even tiny molecular details travel through generations. Pedigree analysis helps us ...

From endangered monkeys to struggling coral reefs, conservation genomics is giving scientists a new way to fight extinction.

Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2003, the world’s scientific community has been racing to decipher this “book” written in an alphabet of four letters. The applications of these ...