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

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

Genome editing technologies like CRISPR-Cas9 have transformed biology, medicine, and agriculture, but concerns remain about ...

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

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59653-x The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological limitations have limited advancement of the field.

Experts share their insights with The i Paper as the UK becomes home to the first major project looking to write human DNA ...

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

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 (SynHG) Project, launched on the 25th anniversary of the mapping of the human genome, is being ...

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

Human genome editing historically has allowed for precise alterations of single base pairs by excising or inserting new sequences at a single location along the DNA strand. However, conventional gene ...