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 ...

In 1989, planning began for creating an atlas of cross-sectional images from a male and female cadaver. Dubbed the "Visible Human Project," the undertaking was completed by the mid-1990s. At a ...

Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small handful of people. Building upon its success, the 1000 Genomes Project was ...

The Human Genome Project (HGP) has provided a comprehensive map of the human genome and identified the species’ approximately 20,300 protein-coding genes 1,2. This demonstrates the power of ...

A team of UK-based researchers is going where no scientist has dared to go—writing artificial human DNA from scratch. They’re hoping the project will answer fundamental questions about the human ...

In Brief: How Many Genes Are in the Human Genome? At the turn of the century, while awaiting the completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP), scientists organized an informal sweepstake for ...

It took 10 years, around 500 scientists and some €600 million, and now the Human Brain Project — one of the biggest research endeavours ever funded by the European Union — is coming to an end. Its ...

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With rapid progress in sequencing technologies and the successful completion of the project’s pilot phase, the effort to map the human genetic blueprint gained significant momentum. This acceleration ...