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

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

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast ...

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

A team of British scientists has launched an ambitious project to build parts of human DNA from scratch. The aim is to better ...

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

British universities have launched the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) with an initial grant of approximately $12.6 ...

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

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

An artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by Google DeepMind in London could help scientists to make sense of this ...