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 ...

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

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

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

A new study has revealed compelling evidence that brain criticality—a dynamic balance between neural excitation and ...

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 ...

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

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

Work has started on a groundbreaking, yet contentious, project to create artificial human DNA from scratch, marking a ...

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