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

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

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

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

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

Human DNA in its natural state inside cells (left) compared to eight hours after being infected with HSV-1 (right). The virus compacts the human genome's size significantly and moves it towards ...

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

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59653-x The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological limitations have limited advancement of the field.

Human genome editing historically has allowed for precise alterations of single base pairs by excising or inserting new sequences at a single location along the DNA strand. However, conventional gene ...

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

Schools including Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown and the University of Pennsylvania and alumni including Conan O'Brien filed new court documents to support Harvard's legal battle.