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

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

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

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

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

My job was to preserve and provide access to the records of the Human Genome Project, for which NHGRI was created in 1988 to lead at the NIH. Since 2012, my colleagues and I have managed a digital ...

This project, as well as its continuation by the T2T Consortium, has made medicine more preventative and treatments more personalized. For example, by knowing which gene mutations cause certain ...

T he Human Genome Project was among the most ambitious scientific efforts in modern history, with the aim of deciphering the chemical makeup of the entire human genetic code. The sequence of some ...

In 1990, governments around the world, with the leadership of the United States, began a 13-year effort to map human DNA through the Human Genome Project (HGP). I believe we can achieve such ...

A decade ago, researchers sequenced 92 percent of the human genome. They just cracked the last 8 percent — a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for cancer and other diseases.