When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there's a whole lot of DNA beyond genes that we are just starting to understand.

Genome-wide association studies have linked thousands of genetic variants to disease, yet most remain disconnected from drug-relevant biology. Neville Sanjana, Professor at New York University and ...

Proteins sustain life as we know it, serving many important structural and functional roles throughout the body. But these large molecules have cast a long shadow over a smaller subclass of proteins ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Researchers from Inocras, a bioinformatics-led company harnessing the power of whole-genome data and proprietary analytics to advance precision health, ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Collins, F. S. 2011. Reengineering translational science: The time is right. Science ...

J. Craig Venter, one of the lead scientists in sequencing the human genome and a pioneer of modern genomics, died Wednesday, his research institute announced. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

What made us human? Our genome provides answers. The human genome was completely sequenced by scientists in 2000, ...