Biologists have long puzzled over why organisms with similar numbers of protein-coding genes can differ so dramatically in ...

Advanced genetic tools have helped to reveal the importance of the dark genome, or DNA that does not code for protein, but ...

The human genome contains around 20,000 genes that hold instructions for making working proteins, as most genetic databases ...

Improved analysis adds several microproteins to the human proteome, and suggests a path toward identifying thousands more ...

Telomeres are repetitive sequences of DNA that can be found at the ends of chromosomes, where they form a kind of protective cap. Telomeres get shorter every time a cell divides, and they are thought ...

The human genome may contain more protein-coding genes than prior analyses suggested. A study published last month (May 29) on BioRxiv provides an expanded database of approximately 5,000 novel ...