Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

Scientists with the Synthetic Human Genome Project are trying to create artificial human DNA from scratch, leading to ...

A £10 million Wellcome Trust-funded project seeks to create artificial human genomes. Technology Networks explored the ...

A team of researchers is beginning work on creating new tools that could eventually lead to the synthesis of the human genome ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.