Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...

The research, part of the Indigenous American Genomic Diversity Project, combined newly sequenced genomes with existing databases to analyze a total of 199 contemporary Indigenous individuals from 53 ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

The Department of Bioethics will host a talk with Charles Rotimi, scientific director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health, Tuesday, Sept. 20, from ...

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

J. Craig Venter, the pioneering geneticist who helped map the human genome and launch synthetic biology, has died at 79 ...

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