But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

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

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

Experts share their insights with The i Paper as the UK becomes home to the first major project looking to write human DNA from scratch ...

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

UK researchers, funded by the Wellcome Trust, have initiated an ambitious project to construct a synthetic human genome from scratch.

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 ...

Artificial human DNA, or synthetic DNA (synDNA), would be made without biological parents by instead using chemicals. SynHG ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.