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

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

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

There’s nothing to stop scientists creating artificial life, said an Irish scientist after a UK charity announced support for ...

The Wellcome Trust — the world’s second largest private funder of biomedical research — named Norwegian public health official John-Arne Røttingen its new CEO.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Wellcome Trust has evolved into one of the great foundations of the world. Founded 50 years ago by Sir Henry Wellcome, the American-born sole owner of the Burroughs-Wellcome drug empire, the Trust ...