A team of researchers is beginning work on creating new tools that could eventually lead to the synthesis of the human genome ...

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

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

Scientists have discovered Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, a unique archaeon residing within marine plankton, challenging traditional definitions of life. Th ...

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

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like ‘Sukunaarchaeum ...

Scientists are warning that a project aiming to build human DNA from scratch could lead to new types of warfare and is a ...

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

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

In the pilot project, researchers from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Indonesia's Ministry of Agriculture, ...

Researchers have identified buried copper ore by testing the DNA of microbes in the surface soil. These ‘biological ...