Researchers have sequenced the first whole ancient Egyptian genome from an individual who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago — ...

The first draft of the human genome – our genetic blueprint – was published on 26 June, 2000. It had taken 10 years to ...

Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) will take decades to complete and cost anything from millions to hundreds of ...

On 26 June 2000, the first draft of the human genome was announced, a historic achievement that changed the course of science. Now, experts at the Wellcome Sanger Institute are looking ahead to how ...

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

A £10 million Wellcome Trust-funded project seeks to create artificial human genomes. Technology Networks explored the ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast ...

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

An ambitious new research project, SynHG (Synthetic Human Genome), is aiming to develop the foundational and scalable tools, technology and methods needed to synthesise human genomes. Through ...