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

The Human Genome Project, which was originally scheduled to be completed in 2005, suddenly found itself in a dramatic race to finish their genome sequence five years early. The sequencing centers ...

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 ...

Researchers have begun working on a new, controversial project to produce human DNA from scratch. It is believed to be the ...

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

The Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) will take decades to complete and cost anything from millions to hundreds of ...

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

Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.

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 ...

Five Big Island high school students were among the six youths who have successfully produced the first-ever draft genome ...