In June, 2025, the Wellcome Trust announced an ambitious £10 million UK project called the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) and claimed it “will unlock a deeper understanding of life, leading to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writing at the intersection of digital transformation, AI, and talent. In October 2024, at Eric von Hippel’s Innovation Lab summit ...

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic material from the ground up. It's an ambitious and controversial project ...

Google's new AI tool can read DNA like a language, and see immediately if a word substitution will change the meaning of that sentence, the company says. — © AFP ...

A team of UK-based researchers is going where no scientist has dared to go—writing artificial human DNA from scratch. They’re hoping the project will answer fundamental questions about the human ...

As technology ventures deeper into realms once reserved for science fiction, Clone Robotics is operating at the leading edge of an emerging and, some might say, provocative field: synthetic human ...

Though it draws its name from an extraterrestrial species, the "Alien" franchise is often just as interested in synthetic life as it is in the biological world. This goes all the way back to the very ...

Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn, and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Experts at the University of California San Diego believe the answer is yes—and that such ...