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

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

From its inception, the Human Genome Project revolved around two key principles (International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, 2001). First, it welcomed collaborators from any nation in an ...

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

To piece together this history, Undark examined more than 100 emails, letters, and other documents, and interviewed many of the Human Genome Project's central figures.

committed an initial £10 million to the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG). The concept of synthesizing a human genome, or writing life from scratch, has been considered taboo. Why the controversy ...

A decade ago, researchers sequenced 92 percent of the human genome. They just cracked the last 8 percent — a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for cancer and other diseases.

The joke about the Human Genome Project is how many times it’s been finished, but not actually. The first time was in 2000, when Bill Clinton announced the “first survey of the entire human ...

Two decades ago, the Human Genome Project completed their mission—sequence the first full human genome. Map out all of the genes we can, and get the full set ready for use in learning more about ...

Although the Human Genome Project was "completed" in 2003, large sections of human DNA still remained unread (Credit: Science Photo Library/Getty Images) No human genome has ever been read in its ...