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

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

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

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

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

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are ...

In a step toward treating mitochondrial diseases, researchers in the Netherlands have successfully edited harmful mutations ...

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

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

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

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

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