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

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

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

Creating a synthetic human genome has the possibilities of improving human healthspans, but it also comes with extremely ...

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

The Synthetic Human Genome (SynHG) Project, launched on the 25th anniversary of the mapping of the human genome, is being ...

The human genetic code will be built from scratch by British scientists in a controversial new research project. The £10 ...

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are ...