Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Research increasingly shows that tackling modifiable exposures and environmental risks could be one of our most powerful ...

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 ...

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 ...