NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Who really won the race to decode the human genome? Inside the cut-throat competition that pushed forward the decoding of the ...

So much science starts with deciphering a genome, the blueprint for every being on Earth. With such roadmaps in hand, ...