Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now ...

A £10 million Wellcome Trust-funded project seeks to create artificial human genomes. Technology Networks explored the ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) will take decades to complete and cost anything from millions to hundreds of millions of pounds. By contrast, just reading the human genome cost around $3 ...

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

Creating a synthetic human genome has the possibilities of improving human healthspans, but it also comes with extremely ...

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic material from the ground up. It's an ambitious and controversial project ...

Hershey Co. becomes the sixth company to promise it will remove synthetic color additives from its products, citing the growing number of state laws that will ban or otherwise restrict color additives ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project is working to build synthetic human DNA but who is asking how this science will impact society?

A bold new research programme, the Synthetic Human Genome Project, has been launched in the UK with £10 million in initial funding from the Wellcome Trust. Led by Professor Jason Chin at the Medical ...

Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full synthetic human genomes, wary of propelling us into a dystopian, Gattaca -esque future full of designer babies.

Controversial World-First Project To Create Human DNA From Scratch Takes First Steps The massive project will likely take decades to complete, but it has significant oversight built into it to ...