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

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

The Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) will take decades to complete and cost anything from millions to hundreds of ...

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

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic ...

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

History of synthetic genome creation . Early efforts to synthesize synthetic genomes focused largely on viruses or bacteria. In 2010. Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute synthesized the ...

This synthetic genome tech means that life-forms can be customized depending on what aspects need to be enhanced. As part of the Sc2.0 Project, for example, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae was ...

E. coli and yeast synthetic genomes. After synthetic Mycoplasma genome development, scientists designed partial and complete synthetic E. coli genomes, namely, rE. coli-57 and Syn61, respectively. 2,7 ...

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