Note how many genes a fruit fly can squeeze out of its relatively small genome. Scientists are intrigued by genetic variation among their own kind: human beings. As scientists make advances in the ...

It’s a marvel how the human genome — two meters of DNA — fits into the tiny nucleus of a cell while orchestrating the complex processes that sustain life. A new study from Northwestern Engineering’s ...

The genetic information in an organism is called its genome. The Human Genome Project, or HGP for short, was started at the end of the last century. It was very ambitious and had several aims ...

For more basic information about genes, visit the Glossary. A rough draft of the human genome was completed in June 2000. Efforts are underway to complete a final draft of the human genome ...

search for genes linked to different types of disease understand inherited disorders and their treatment trace human migration patterns from the past Scientists are searching for disease ...

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 ...