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 ...

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

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 ...

The UK has officially launched the Synthetic Human Genome Project, a groundbreaking initiative, aiming to construct human DNA ...

Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest ...

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

The massive project will likely take decades to complete, but it has significant oversight built into it to ensure it remains ethical.

A controversial project that aims to create the building blocks of human life has started. It was previously thought creating ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project is being funded by the Wellcome Trust, which has donated Rs 117 crore (10 million pounds).

The project will begin by making parts of a human chromosome, testing them in skin cells. Alongside the scientific work, a ...