Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

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

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

Scientists with the Synthetic Human Genome Project are trying to create artificial human DNA from scratch, leading to ...

Before an important meeting or when a big decision needs to be made, we often mentally run through various scenarios before ...

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

The Genie Is Out of the Bottle' - Work on First Ever Artificial Human DNA Begins The world's largest medical charity has given the go-ahead to begin research on what could be the next giant leap in ...

A £10 million Wellcome Trust-funded project seeks to create artificial human genomes. Technology Networks explored the ...

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

The Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) will take decades to complete and cost anything from millions to hundreds of millions of pounds. By contrast, just reading the human genome cost around $3 ...

A Ph.D. graduate student in biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, with a background in computer science and mathematics, ...

In the interview, Lloyd M. Smith discusses proteoforms, an area of research worthy of the next Human Genome Project.