The first draft of the human genome was announced in a White House ceremony in 2000 by leaders of two competing entities: an international publicly funded project led by an agency of the U.S ...

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Darryl Leja/NHGRI Supported by By Elie Dolgin More than 20 years after scientists first released a draft sequence of the human genome ... was not involved in the project. But in due course ...

a professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington, and one of more than 120 scientists who worked on the five-year, $40 million pangenome project. Eichler stressed that the pangenome ...

Protein-coding versus noncoding genes When deciding the number of genes in the human genome, Human Genome Project researchers initially counted protein-coding genes—regions of chromosomal DNA that are ...

Back in 2000, after the Human Genome Project’s leaders announced that a working draft of the human genome had been completed, GEN kicked off its coverage of the event by quoting from a New ...

In today’s special report, we look at both the medical promise and the ethical issues of the human genome project. It’s been called the largest and most important project ever in basic ...

(See related news photo: "Sea Urchin Genome Decoded".) "Comparing all the genes of the sea urchin, it's actually quite similar to us," says George Weinstock, who led the sequencing project.

Dr. Glen Evans brought the Human Genome Project to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the 1990s for only a few years. The project's legacy lives on today in the research of UT ...

Researchers analyzed genomic sequencing data available from the Human Genome Project, the 1,000 Genomes Project and The Cancer Genome Atlas. They considered the phenomenon of lateral gene transfer ...

In 2003, project scientists unveiled a genome sequence that accounted for over 90% of the human genome — as complete as possible for the technology of the time. Darryl Leja, NHGRI/Flickr ...