When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

Researchers identified the widespread presence of the ionophore resistance genes narA and narB in over 2,400 bacterial ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now ...

Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 year ...

The UK has officially launched the Synthetic Human Genome Project, a groundbreaking initiative, aiming to construct human DNA from scratch.

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 ...

Scientists involved in the Synthetic Human Genome Project are now attempting to create a fully synthetic human chromosome, making up about two per cent of human DNA, as proof of concept.

Researchers have discovered that the herpes virus reshapes the human genome’s architecture, rearranging its shape in three-dimensional space so that HSV-1 can access host genes most useful for its ...

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