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

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

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

But a human genome is an entirely different proposition ... watching this project to see how it plays out in more concrete terms. At the end of the five years, the project leaders hope they'll have a ...

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 ...

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

Pico della Mirandola is the unofficial saint of transhumanists because he was pushing human plasticity over the edge. He ...

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

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 ...

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