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

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

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

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

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

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

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Throughout their long history, Qimmit have remained working dogs–still almost exclusively bred by mushers to pull sleds for ...

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

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

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

The first draft of the human genome – our genetic blueprint – was published on 26 June, 2000. It had taken 10 years to ...