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

A groundbreaking and highly controversial scientific initiative is now underway in the UK, as leading British researchers aim ...

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

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are ...

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

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

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

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

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

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

Artificial human DNA, or synthetic DNA (synDNA), would be made without biological parents by instead using chemicals. SynHG ...

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