On July 10 in Hanoi, the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), in coordination with the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam, ...

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

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

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

Dr Julian Sale, of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge ... on the 25th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project, which mapped the molecules in human DNA and was also ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two men who went to prison as teenagers for a 1994 killing were exonerated Thursday, after prosecutors said ...

Antibiotics are one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medical science—but these lifesaving tools have a dark side. Their persistent use can produce "superbugs"—drug-resistant microbes that ...

A UK-led team is starting a major project to build human genetic material from scratch. This research aims to unlock how DNA ...

UK scientists to create Human DNA from scratch in lab to study genome The project will begin by making parts of a human chromosome, testing them in skin cells. Alongside the scientific work, a ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute has named the 11 producers chosen for its annual Producers Labs, returning to Ucross ...

Details of the project were given to BBC News on the 25th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project, which mapped the molecules in human DNA and was also largely funded by Wellcome.

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