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 Project aims to develop methods allowing scientists to not only read an entire DNA molecule but also ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project is working to build synthetic human DNA but who is asking how this science will impact ...

A controversial project aiming to create artificial DNA from scratch is in the works. The endeavour, which is called SynHG ...

Who really won the race to decode the human genome? Inside the cut-throat competition that pushed forward the decoding of the ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

To piece together this history, Undark examined more than 100 emails, letters, and other documents, and interviewed many of the Human Genome Project's central figures.

The Human Genome Project was a massive undertaking that took more than a decade and billions of dollars to complete. For it, scientists collected DNA samples from anonymous volunteers who were ...