The Human Genome Project (HGP) truly was the biological equivalent of landing on the moon. It was a game changer: massive in scale, bold in ambition, and incredibly complex to accomplish.

“Science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.” – François Rabelais ...

Synthetic Human Genome (SynHG) project sparks fears that rogue scientists could create enhanced ‘super humans’ in decades to ...

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25 years ago, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, led the international consortium that completed the first draft of the Human Genome Project (HGP), an event marked at an historic White House celebration on ...

The cooperation that characterized the international Human Genome Project (HGP) is shifting rapidly towards competition as the project's members vie to decipher the genetic codes of other species ...

Following the completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP) in 2003 – a publicly funded 13-year-long effort, where the cellular DNA (i.e the genome) of humans was sequenced – SynHG aims to generate a ...

For more than two decades, the Human Genome Project (HGP) - a landmark scientific endeavour led by Western nations - mapped humanity's genetic blueprint, yet the rich diversity of Southeast Asia ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote.

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