Human Genome Project
The human genome needs updating. But how do we make it fair?
Healthcare’s standard genome is mostly based on one American. As we enter the era of personalised medicine, this bias has drawbacks for much of the world’s population
Ida Emilie Steinmark
29, Jan, 2023 @3:00 PM
First complete gap-free human genome sequence published
More than 20 years after milestone of first draft, missing sections of sequence have been completed
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
31, Mar, 2022 @6:00 PM
20 years after the human genome was first sequenced, dangerous gene myths abound | Philip Ball
Misleading rhetoric has fuelled the belief that our genetic code is an ‘instruction book’ – but it’s far more interesting than that, says science writer Philip Ball
Philip Ball
09, Jun, 2021 @10:43 AM
‘The wondrous map’: how unlocking human DNA changed the course of science
Thanks to the success of the Human Genome Project, 20 years ago this week, scientists can track biology and disease at a molecular level
Robin McKie
21, Jun, 2020 @7:19 AM
Sue Povey obituary
Molecular geneticist who was a leading contributor to the Human Genome Project
Dallas Swallow and Veronica van Heyningen
20, Feb, 2019 @5:33 PM
Medical advances could soon spare patients surgery, say experts
Better drugs, vaccination and genomics will help to make some operations obsolete
Denis Campbell Health policy editor
07, Dec, 2018 @12:01 AM
Sir Aaron Klug obituary
Chemist and biophysicist who won the Nobel prize for developing crystallographic electron microscopy
Georgina Ferry
26, Nov, 2018 @1:10 PM
Sir John Sulston obituary
Pioneering biologist best known for his work on the human genome who was a fierce advocate of free access to scientific data
Georgina Ferry
11, Mar, 2018 @3:19 PM
Sir John Sulston, pioneering genome scientist, dies aged 75
Sulston won the Nobel prize for medicine in 2002 for his work on genome sequencing
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
09, Mar, 2018 @3:30 PM
How can I make money from my DNA?
If you have your DNA sequenced, someone somewhere will be making money from the data. A new start-up aims to make sure that you get your share
Zoë Corbyn
18, Feb, 2018 @7:30 AM
The Guardian view on adjusting DNA: a new world | Editorial
Editorial: A hope that embryos could be purged of a genetic disease has been fulfilled in part. However, we are some way off reimplanting modified embryos into their mothers – for all the right reasons
Editorial
03, Aug, 2017 @5:59 PM
A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford review – genes, race and rewriting the human story
This effervescent book contains the latest thinking on the African origins of Homo sapiens and asks what our genes can really tell us
Colin Grant
17, Sep, 2016 @7:00 AM
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