Twenty-two years after the completion of the Human Genome Project, scientists have unveiled the most expansive catalog of human genetic variation ever compiled. Across two new papers published ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." An unassuming freshwater fish contains the longest genomic sequence ever discovered, measuring in at 30 ...

Eukaryotic genomes, including our own, are littered with ‘jumping genes’ called retrotransposons. In fact, nearly 40% of the human genome is derived from a single type, the LINE-1 element. To ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

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