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

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

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 ...

Scientists have found 473 human genes that behave like on/off switches, revealing links to cancer, immune conditions, and ...

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

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

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.

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

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