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 ...

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

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

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full synthetic human genomes, wary of propelling us into a dystopian, Gattaca ...

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

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

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

In an effort to foster progress in cancer research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is releasing ...

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic material from the ground up. It's an ambitious and controversial project ...

The new Synthetic Human Genome Project will potentially allow researchers not just to be able to read DNA but create parts of it.