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

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

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

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The idea of resurrecting long-lost direwolves sounds like pure fantasy—something out of Game of Thrones—yet Colossal Biosciences insists science is catching up with myth. Chief science officer Beth ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

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

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a fish sauce, often known as garum, eaten throughout the Roman Empire ...

Eggs and embryos from people with polycystic ovary syndrome have altered patterns of so-called epigenetic tags, which could ...