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

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

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

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

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

The massive project will likely take decades to complete, but it has significant oversight built into it to ensure it remains ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project is working to build synthetic human DNA but who is asking how this science will impact ...

A UK-led team is starting a major project to build human genetic material from scratch. This research aims to unlock how DNA ...

committed an initial £10 million to the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG). The concept of synthesizing a human genome, or writing life from scratch, has been considered taboo. Why the controversy ...