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A big federal research project aimed at reducing racial disparities in genetic research has unveiled the program's first major trove of results. "This is a huge deal," says Dr. Joshua Denny, who runs ...

The Human Pangenome Project hopes to establish a better reference genome for research, and scientists are already learning new things. Reading time 3 minutes Scientists are expanding the genetic map ...

Researchers have found more than 275 million previously unreported genetic variants from data shared by nearly 250,000 volunteers. Half of the data are from participants of non-European ancestry. A ...

Scientists say that 55 percent of differences in human lifespan are due to genetic makeup, much more than previously believed ...

Twenty years ago, the Human Genome Project officially wrapped up. It was a feat of collaborative science that took 13 years—from 1990 to 2003—and involved researchers from around the globe. In honor ...

Big is beautiful. That was the message of post-second-world-war science. The model was the Manhattan Project to build the first atom bombs. When hostilities ended, it continued with larger and larger ...

The human tendency to prefer immediate rewards over long-term goals is partly rooted in our DNA, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Human Biology. The findings suggest ...

Twenty years ago the Human Genome Project (HGP) unveiled a mostly complete sequence of the roughly 3bn base pairs of DNA found in every set of human chromosomes. The project was chock-full of ego and ...