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

A Ph.D. graduate student in biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, with a background in computer science and mathematics, ...

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

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

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

Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.

Synthetic Human Genome (SynHG) project sparks fears that rogue scientists could create enhanced ‘super humans’ in decades to come ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human ...

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

Researchers sequenced the genome of a sea spider, revealing it lacks whole-genome duplication seen in related arachnids. This ...