Human Genome Project

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least 2 ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread...

Dr Robin Hesketh, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry and author of Betrayed by Nature, explains how advances in inexpensive, rapid gene...

The first Asian and African human genomes have been deciphered using a technique originally invented by Professors Shankar Balasubramanian and David...

One of the biggest projects ever undertaken to identify genetic variants that predispose some people to certain diseases was begun in 2005, thanks to...