Creating genomes from DNA is hugely important for managing threatened species—understanding their past and how they have ...

Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.

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

The Synthetic Human Genome Project is being funded by the Wellcome Trust, which has donated Rs 117 crore (10 million pounds).

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

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

The Illinois Attorney General's Office has entered the courtroom in the Illinois Innocence Project's effort to overturn the ...

Gujarati-origin Sonny Bharadia was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2003 in a case of burglary and ...

Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech company known for its grand and controversial plans to bring back lost spec ...

The UK has officially launched the Synthetic Human Genome Project, a groundbreaking initiative, aiming to construct human DNA ...

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