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

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast instruction manual tells our cells to do. Most of the genome remains mysterious, ...

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

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

Scientists with the Synthetic Human Genome Project are trying to create artificial human DNA from scratch, leading to numerous ethical concerns. While the ...

In March, he received the prestigious American Association for Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Research (AADOCR) Joseph Lister ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project is working to build synthetic human DNA but who is asking how this science will impact ...

By focusing on twins and patients with lupus and Parkinson’s disease, a Mexican consortium is generating critical data to ...

A new study by the Genomics and Microbial Evolution Group at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) together with the ...

Prof. Moran Hausman-Kedem, a pediatric neurologist involved in the research, emphasized the clinical value of the model: “For rare diseases where patient populations are too small for large-scale ...

Citrate is essential for the metabolism and development of neurons. A membrane transport protein called SLC13A5 plays a central role in this process and has previously been linked to a particularly ...