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

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

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

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

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

Scientists in Spain and China discovered that HSV-1 begins rewriting the architecture of human genes just one hour after ...

Now Google’s DeepMind division says it’s made a leap in trying to understand the code with AlphaGenome, an AI model that ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google DeepMind today introduced AlphaGenome, a new artificial intelligence tool that can comprehensively ...

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

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

Researchers discovered that HSV-1 (herpes simplex virus) actively reshapes the 3D layout of human DNA within hours of ...