November 17, 2008 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) — The 1000 Genomes Project is using a variety of next-generation sequencing technologies to create an extensive public database of single-nucleotide ...

Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small handful of people. Building upon its success, the 1000 Genomes Project was ...

New analysis of the 1000 Genomes sample set yields brand new insights, providing a more complete view of human genetic variation than ever before. Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us ...

Human Genome Project. Now, just ten years later, many individuals have had their genomes sequenced, and the cost keeps dropping.

I once had a professor who claimed that Viagra was the logical endpoint of all science. "We did it!" he exclaimed, one day in class. All those millions of years ago, he argued, the first real attempt ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote. Twenty-five ...

Twenty-five years ago today, on July 7, 2000, the world got its very first look at a human genome — the 3 billion letter code that controls how our bodies function. Posted online by a small team at ...