Controversy Erupts As Scientists Start Work To Create Artificial Human DNA The Synthetic Human Genome Project is being funded by the Wellcome Trust, which has donated Rs 117 crore (10 million pounds).

Human genetic code to be built from scratch Scientists from top universities hope to create fully synthetic human chromosome in five-year £10m project This feature is available for registered users.

To Shakespeare's Hamlet, we humans are "the paragon of animals." But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution's greatest achievement.

We may have complex brains but evolution hasn’t dealt us the best hand when it comes to genetics.

A new, rapid testing method will greatly help the diagnosis of rare diseases in babies and children, according to research presented to the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics.

In general, human populations share most of the same genetic variation and evolutionary history. New research raises the possibility that recent human history involved far more dynamic evolution ...

How fast does the human genome change? Scientists have attempted to answer this question by studying mutation rates over several generations, and they found that some parts of the human genome tend to ...