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

Experts are emphasising that safeguarding patient data from corporations and cyberattacks is vital for the NHS to create a ...

If that’s true, though, then we’d expect people to also be good at detecting when someone is “faking” it – what we call ...

A picture is worth 1,000 words, and that means they can really change perceptions of different things in society,” says Elizabeth Wathuti, a young Kenyan climate activist and one of the judges of this ...

Synthetic Human Genome Project aims to develop methods allowing scientists to not only read an entire DNA molecule but also ...

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

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

The human genetic code will be built from scratch by British scientists in a controversial new research project. The £10 ...

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic ...

For the first time, scientists have systematically studied the genetic effects of chemotherapy on healthy tissues.

The Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme (MLW)—one of the Wellcome Trust's major overseas programmes—is to receive around £14 million over 5 years in renewed funding, it is ...