What is genome sequencing? How does it work in your world? Genome sequencing is the process of reading an organism’s entire genetic code. In humans, that’s about 3 billion chemical “letters” (A, C, T and G). The technology was first developed in ...

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 years ago today, on July 7, 2000, the world got its very ...

Prince Frederik of Luxembourg died from a genetic disease called PolG, but experts hope his passing could bring more awareness to the rare condition that impacted his life. Prince Frederik, 22, died from a mitochondrial disease known as PolG, his father ...

Utz is a science communicator, public historian, and archivist, formerly at the National Human Genome Research Institute. I’d be willing to bet that most of the U.S. population above the age of 35 has at least heard of the Human Genome Project.

In 1812, French military general Napoleon Bonaparte controlled most of Europe. Even with all this power, though, when he went to bring up to 600,000 troops to invade Russia, they were forced to retreat that October.