From the completion of the pilot phase of The ENCODE Project in 2007, it has been evident that there is much more to a gene than the just a sequence that codes for protein, changing our concept of ...

The University of California, Santa Cruz, has played a key role in an international project to catalog all of the biologically functional elements in 1 percent of the human genome. The results of the ...

At present, it is in its fourth round of funding, and the NIH has awarded grants to a group of institutions from all over the United States to perform research as part of this project. Apart from ...