But behind that tingling lip is one of the world’s most widespread and cunning viruses—herpes simplex virus type 1, or HSV-1.

A controversial project aiming to create artificial DNA from scratch is in the works. The endeavour, which is called SynHG ...

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In a move hailed as biology’s next giant leap and condemned by critics as potentially dangerous British scientists have ...

The UK has officially launched the Synthetic Human Genome Project, a groundbreaking initiative, aiming to construct human DNA from scratch.

The Synthetic Human Genome Project will create DNA artificially. Scientists will create parts of a molecule of DNA, and even ...

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Work has begun on a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life from scratch, in what is believed to be ...

FlyBase, the world's only fruit fly database, is in the crosshairs of Trump's attack on Harvard. Here's why it could matter ...

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In a study of human immune cells infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say a ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google DeepMind today introduced AlphaGenome, a new artificial intelligence tool that can comprehensively ...