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New research suggests that DNA sequences historically considered to be "junk" have had an overlooked role in gene expression this whole time.

Scientists Find Secret Code in Human DNA

By Frank Landymore

A group of scientists in the United Kingdom are making synthetic human DNA from scratch in a world's first.

Scientists Playing God are Building Human DNA From the Ground Up

By Sharon Adarlo

Advances in technology have allowed two teams of researchers to wade through its enormous amounts of junk DNA.

The Male Y Chromosome Has Finally Been Completely Sequenced

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk Speculates About Storing All Human DNA in Database

Elon Musk Speculates About Storing All Human DNA in Database

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have figured out a way to map the human genome in three dimensions, using enzymes to calculate a gene's distance from a cell's nucleus.

Science & Energy

15 Years Ago, We Sequenced the Human Genome. Now We Can 3D Map It.

By Kristin Houser

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Google Released an AI That Analyzes Your Genome

By Chelsea Gohd

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Health & Medicine

A Chinese Province Is Sequencing One Million of Its Residents’ Genomes

By Claudia Geib

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Health & Medicine

CRISPR Can Now Be Used to Edit Individual Bases

New Study Shows That Only About 25% Of Our DNA is Functional

New Study Shows That Only About 25% Of Our DNA is Functional

Geneticists Are Pioneering a Way to Postpone Death Using Human DNA

Science & Energy

Geneticists Are Pioneering a Way to Postpone Death Using Human DNA

End to Illness: Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing How We Prevent Disease

End to Illness: Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing How We Prevent Disease

By Jelor Gallego

Soon We Could Have a Detailed Map of Every Cell in the Human Body

Soon We Could Have a Detailed Map of Every Cell in the Human Body

By Jess Vilvestre

Harvard Scientists Announce Plans To Create Synthetic Human Genomes

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Harvard Scientists Announce Plans To Create Synthetic Human Genomes

By Charmaine Caparas

This New Technique Makes Rewriting the Genetic Code of Living Organisms Much Easier

This New Technique Makes Rewriting the Genetic Code of Living Organisms Much Easier

By Jolene Creighton