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

Creating a synthetic human genome has the possibilities of improving human healthspans, but it also comes with extremely ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) will take decades to complete and cost anything from millions to hundreds of millions of pounds. By contrast, just reading the human genome cost around $3 ...

In the interview, Lloyd M. Smith discusses proteoforms, an area of research worthy of the next Human Genome Project.

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

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

The human genome contains roughly 3 billion nucleotides and just under 20,000 protein-coding genes – an estimated 1% of the genome’s total length. The remaining 99% is non-coding DNA sequences ...

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

The answer, after the usual political haggling, was the Human Genome Project ... for example the Human Cell Atlas, which has 1,483 participating organisations scattered around the world. ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full synthetic human genomes, wary of propelling us into a dystopian, Gattaca ...