J. Craig Venter, a trailblazing geneticist whose work transformed biology, has died at 79 in San Diego after complications from cancer treatment. He led the private effort that raced the publicly funded Human Genome Project, producing the first human ...

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

Utz is a science communicator, public historian, and archivist, formerly at the National Human Genome Research Institute. I’d be willing to bet that most of the U.S. population above the age of 35 has at least heard of the Human Genome Project.

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published in Nature. A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in ...