A cancer cell expressing a 'dark' protein (in red). (Ting Luo/​Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology) A new study has ...

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.

Scientist and medical technology entrepreneur J. Craig Venter published the first bacterial genome ever decoded in 1995. The result heralded a new age of discovery for genetics ...

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 ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

J. Craig Venter, one of the lead scientists in sequencing the human genome and a pioneer of modern genomics, died on Wednesday, his research institute announced.

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote. Twenty-five ...

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 ...