After serving as the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for more than 15 years, Eric Green, M.D ...

Human Genome Sciences (HGS) is about to change that, as the company announced on July 20 that its monoclonal antibody (mAb) drug Benlysta (belimumab, formerly LymphoStat-B) has met its primary ...

GlaxoSmithKline has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with Human Genome Sciences (HGS), under which GSK will acquire HGS for US $14.25 per share in cash. The transaction values ...

The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more ...

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

Marco Marra spent five years earning his PhD by studying DNA fragments of roundworms, fascinated by the notion that ...

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 ...

At Illumina, we understand how important it is for life sciences researchers to ... Sanger to sequence the first full genome. The first draft of the human genome was sequenced in 2001 and the ...

Danzig became a director of Human Genome Sciences in May 2001. Later that year the company began work on an anthrax antitoxin after the September 11 terrorist attacks and a spate of anthrax-laced ...

The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who we are has dominated the human sciences. Do ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Each cell of the human body contains two meters of DNA ... the Institute of Gene Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and other scientific organizations have also made efforts in this ...