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

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

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

Creating a synthetic human genome has the possibilities of improving human healthspans, but it also comes with extremely ...

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

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

Francis Collins has overseen some of the most revolutionary science of the last few decades. He led the Human Genome Project ...

25 years ago, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, led the international consortium that completed the first draft of the Human Genome Project (HGP), an event marked at an historic White House celebration on ...

My job was to preserve and provide access to the records of the Human Genome Project, for which NHGRI was created in 1988 to lead at the NIH. Since 2012, my colleagues and I have managed a digital ...

The director of the NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), linkurl:Francis Collins,;http://www.genome.gov/10000779 announced today (May 28) that he will step down from his position on ...

He then returned to the NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute, where he had served as director from 1993 to 2008. There, Collins led the Human Genome Project, which successfully ...

After an illustrious career including 12 years as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and leading the international Human Genome Project (HGP) consortium, Francis Collins, MD, PhD ...