Genome Research publishes a special issue dedicated to The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) Project, whose goal is to characterize all functional elements in the human genome. From the completion ...

The hundreds of researchers working on the ENCODE project have revealed that much of what has been called 'junk DNA' in the human genome is actually a massive control panel with millions of switches ...

Ever since scientists sequenced the first human genome in 2003, they have tried to finger regulatory influences that dictate when and where a person’s 21,000 or so genes are expressed. To help, the ...

A 3-D animation shows how DNA molecules can be used in computational devices. (Credit: Microsoft Research) Data storage is getting better and better, but the final frontier for the long-term ...