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 ...

A team of UK-based scientists are developing technology to create the first synthetic human chromosome. The ability to write large genomes has the potential to transform our understanding of human ...

A groundbreaking and highly controversial scientific initiative is now underway in the UK, as leading British researchers aim ...

The Wellcome Trust recently announced that they are funding a research programme to investigate synthetic human genomes, and Laura Blackburn had the opportunity to comment for radio coverage of the ...

SynHG (Synthetic Human Genome) researchers won’t create artificial life but instead use test tubes and Petri dishes to figure out how humans can make the code of life.

An ambitious new research project, SynHG (Synthetic Human Genome), is aiming to develop the foundational and scalable tools, technology and methods needed to synthesise human genomes. Through ...

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

SynHG (Synthetic Human Genome) researchers won’t create artificial life but instead use test tubes and Petri dishes to figure out how humans can make the code of life.

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