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

A Ph.D. student in biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has built a software program ...

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 ...

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

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

A team of researchers is beginning work on creating new tools that could eventually lead to the synthesis of the human genome ...

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

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.

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

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