Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

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

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

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

A team of researchers is beginning work on creating new tools that could eventually lead to the synthesis of the human genome ...

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

The idea of resurrecting long-lost direwolves sounds like pure fantasy—something out of Game of Thrones—yet Colossal Biosciences insists science is catching up with myth. Chief science officer Beth ...