Many repetitive regions of the genome have been considered "junk DNA" because the available technologies did not allow them ...

Many repetitive regions of the genome have been considered "junk DNA" because the technologies available did not allow them to be studied at sufficient resolution.

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study published in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University in Sweden show ...

An international research team led by the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) has developed HERRO, an ...

Repetitive elements make up over 50% of the human genome. Recent advances in long-read sequencing experimental approaches and data analysis algorithms have made it possible to characterize these ...

A new international study suggests that ancient viral DNA embedded in our genome, which were long dismissed as genetic "junk", may actually play powerful roles in regulating gene expression. Focusing ...

New study finds two next-generation whole-genome sequencing systems deliver broadly similar accuracy in detecting genetic variants. Read more.