DNA methylation plays an important role in separating us genetically from our closest relatives.

NIH funding has allowed scientists to see the DNA blueprints of human life—completely. In 2022, the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium, a group of NIH-funded scientists from research institutions around ...

DNA methylation is a highly studied epigenetic modification that regulates genome function and plays key roles in development and disease 1. It is linked to a broad range of conditions, including ...

His work helped scientists understand the genetic causes for rare diseases and more common conditions such as heart disease and cancer.

Scientists thought they had a working map of the human proteome. Some stretches of DNA made useful proteins, while a murkier, ...

UC Santa Cruz has a long history of pioneering advances in genomics research. The first working draft of a human genome sequence was assembled on our campus in 2000, which has led to enormous leaps in ...

The human genome is cluttered with the remnants of ancient viruses. One of those viruses is the human betaherpesvirus 6A and ...

The CHOP's research team findings support the hypothesis that rare AAV integration can contribute to human oncogenesis, which ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...