Our genome, the sum of our genetic material, contains the directions for building our bodies. There is some dispute, however, over how much of our genome has functionality, and how much of it is just ...

Genomics is a discipline in genetics concerned with the study of the genomes of organisms. The field includes efforts to determine the entire DNA sequence of organisms and fine-scale genetic mapping.

The completion of the draft human genome sequence was announced ten years ago. 's survey of life scientists reveals that biology will never be the same again. Declan Butler reports. "With this ...

A tiny freshwater snail from New Zealand is giving scientists a glimpse into evolution in motion. University of Iowa ...

More than 20 years after people got a peek at the first draft of the human genome, our genetic instruction book, researchers have unlocked the next level: the human pangenome. The more complete ...

Within the microscopic boundaries of a single human cell, the intricate folds and arrangements of protein and DNA bundles dictate a person's fate: which genes are expressed, which are suppressed, and ...

Scientists have discovered the organism with the largest known genome, containing 160 billion base pairs. That makes it more than 50 times bigger than the human genome, and the organism it’s ...

Genome Biology's first Impact Factor of 9.71 confirms the journal as one of the top titles in biology. The journal's first Impact Factor places it in the top five of research journals in the highly ...