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

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

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast instruction manual tells our cells to do. Most of the genome remains mysterious, ...

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are ...

Scientists have begun the Synthetic Human Genome (SynHG) project, aiming to reconstruct human genetic material from scratch. The Wellcome Trust funds this ambitious initiative.

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

Cold sore-causing HSV-1 doesn't just hijack cells it reconfigures the entire architecture of our DNA to aid its invasion.

An ambitious new research project, SynHG (Synthetic Human Genome), is aiming to develop the foundational and scalable tools, ...

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

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

Investigating how mutations in tumors alter DNA’s 3D structure—and subsequently, regulatory sequences called enhancers—can ...

Understanding human biology requires more than mapping our genes—we must also understand how gene expression is regulated to ...