The massive project will likely take decades to complete, but it has significant oversight built into it to ensure it remains ...

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

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical ...

However, the human genome is more complex as it contains over 3 billion ... It could also help us tackle global issues like food security by engineering climate-resistant crops. The project team also ...

An ambitious new research project, SynHG (Synthetic Human Genome), is aiming to develop the foundational and scalable tools, ...

They will soon start human clinical trials for combination gene therapy to treat age related diseases. George Church is also leading an effort to develop and scale human genome engineering to 20,000 ...

The research article, “ In vivo human T cell engineering with enveloped delivery vehicles, ” was published in Nature Biotechnology. Targeted in vivo delivery of genome editing tools ...

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological ...

Scientists have pieced together a new draft of the human genome that better captures humanity’s genetic diversity. The new “pangenome” incorporates the DNA of 47 individuals from every ...

Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the ...

A new study from Northwestern Engineering’s Center for Physical Genomics and Engineering (CPGE) reveals the genome is far more dynamic than previously thought, operating less like a static instruction ...