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

Antibiotics are one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medical science—but these lifesaving tools have a dark side.

The project will begin by making parts of a human chromosome, testing them in skin cells. Alongside the scientific work, a ...

Tactical teams find no DNA or trace of fugitive Travis Decker in Leavenworth and Blewitt Pass during extensive mountain ...

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

The Synthetic Human Genome Project, officially launched in the UK, aims to construct human DNA from the ground up.

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

Cutting-edge new DNA analysis of skeletons has revealed the people in this prehistoric outpost of civilisation may have ...