A groundbreaking and highly controversial scientific initiative is now underway in the UK, as leading British researchers aim ...

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

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human ...

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

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

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

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

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

Anne Wojcicki's nonprofit, TTAM Research Institute, has received court approval to buy 23andMe — the genetic testing company ...

This article discusses how racial categories, rooted in social history, are used in records and society. It argues race isn’t ...

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