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

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

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

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

Scientists say they captured 3D images of a new organelle they're calling a "hemifusome," which may be a recycling center in ...

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical minefield, with fears of a generation of ‘designer babies’ with pick ‘n’ mix ...

My job was to preserve and provide access to the records of the Human Genome Project, for which NHGRI was created in 1988 to lead at the NIH. Since 2012, my colleagues and I have managed a digital ...

The team is also building a data infrastructure to share findings and fact-check results. The project offers a bird’s-eye view of how each gene—and their combinations—keeps our bodily functions ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the chimpanzee and found that humans are 96 percent similar to the great ape species. "Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the ...

In earlier phases of the project, researchers mapped out where enhancers and promoters are located in the human genome. The genome, Reilly said, is something like a blueprint for a house; discerning ...

It took almost twice as long to finish the last 8% of the human genome as it did to sequence the first 92%. New laboratory and computational technologies finally enabled Miga and her colleagues to ...