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 11 a ...

Venter redrew the boundaries of biology — sequencing DNA at unprecedented speed, engineering synthetic life and charting ...

Researchers have significantly expanded the catalogue of known human genetic variation. The resulting datasets, shared in two back-to-back publications in the journal Nature, constitute what may be ...

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J. Craig Venter, one of the lead scientists in sequencing the human genome and a pioneer of modern genomics, died on ...

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 ...

The first complete draft of the human genome was published back in 2003. Since then, researchers have worked both to improve the accuracy of human genetic data, and to expand its diversity, looking at ...

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

Structural variants (SVs) are alterations in the DNA sequence that involve large-scale changes, typically longer than 50 base pairs. Advances in long-read sequencing have significantly increased ...

In the opening keynote talk in GEN’s “The State of CRISPR & Genome Editing” virtual summit, originally broadcast on June 11, 2025, Feng Zhang, PhD, Core Institute Member of the Broad Institute and an ...

J. Craig Venter, the pioneering geneticist who helped decode the human genome and created the first synthetic bacterial cell, has died at 79 in San Diego. His death followed a brief hospitalisation ...