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 ...