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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cancer does not develop overnight. It can take decades for cancer‐promoting changes in the genome to eventually lead to the ...