Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

The mitochondrial genome is the full genetic complement of a mitochondrion. Mitochondrial DNA is only a small portion of the total DNA of a eukaryotic cell and in most species is solely inherited ...

Using the AlphaMissense AI, the team has estimated that 57% of missense mutations cause no harm, while around a third (32%) may be harmful, and the impact of the remaining 11% is uncertain.