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

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

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

The first draft of the human genome – our genetic blueprint – was published on 26 June, 2000. It had taken 10 years to ...

British universities have launched the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) with an initial grant of approximately $12.6 ...

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Scientists with the NIH-backed SMaHT Network are mapping every DNA mutation in the human body, creating a groundbreaking ...

Growing interest in health and the exposome—a person's collective environmental exposures—is spurring new funding and research initiatives. Talha Burki reports.

In this interview, Professor James J. Collins, founder of the field of Synthetic Biology, discusses his journey to founding ...

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

Picture juicy red tomatoes on the vine. What do you see? Some tomato varieties have straight vines. Others are branched. The ...

Creating genomes from DNA is hugely important for managing threatened species—understanding their past and how they have ...