It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

The University of California, Santa Cruz, has played a key role in an international project to catalog all of the biologically functional elements in 1 percent of the human genome. The results of the ...

From the completion of the pilot phase of The ENCODE Project in 2007, it has been evident that there is much more to a gene than the just a sequence that codes for protein, changing our concept of ...

A 'loopy' discovery in bacteria is raising fundamental questions about the makeup of our own genome -- and revealing a potential wellspring of material for new genetic therapies. A "loopy" discovery ...

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BETHESDA, Md., Thurs., Oct. 21, 2004 – A research consortium organized by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today published a paper ...