After serving as the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for more than 15 years, Eric Green, M.D ...

Using a new method of modeling genetic data, researchers identified a split in human ancestry dating back 1.5 million years. The two populations later reconnected. The mystery population (Population B ...

The Human Genome Project was an international research project that sequenced all of the genes found in humans. This ambitious project began in 1990 and concluded in 2003. One goal of the project ...

The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more ...

We've long assumed our species evolved from a tidy, single stream of ancestors. But life on Earth is never quite so ...

Former NIH director Francis Collins is so concerned for his personal safety that he has hired security at his home ...

Scientists rallied nationwide last Friday in opposition to the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts for scientific research ...

Rallies brought together leading researchers, former administrators and people who benefitted from medical advances.

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

The project promises to generate controversy, as did its counterpart, the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP). The HGDP was developed in 1991 to map the genetic diversity of hundreds of human ...

Since it began in 1990, the Human Genome Project is estimated to have cost $3,000,000,000. The entire human genome requires three gigabytes of computer data storage space. (One million base pairs ...

Thirty years out from the start of the Human Genome Project, researchers have finally finished sequencing the full 3 billion bases of a person’s genetic code. But even a complete reference genome has ...