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 ...

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 Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) consortium published a set of papers in Nature and Genome Research that sum the work of more than four years of effort dedicated to understanding the ...

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 ...

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) today announced a $5 million grant to the University of California, Santa Cruz, as part of a four-year project to build a “parts list” of ...