Wellcome backing gets project to recreate human genome from scratch off the ground
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Angeli Mehta2025-07-03T13:30:00
Effort to synthesise human genome will likely take decades but should provide insight into disease
A team of researchers is beginning work on creating new tools that could eventually lead to the synthesis of the human genome in the lab. Wellcome is providing £10 million to the Synthetic Human Genome Project, which it expects will unlock new medical treatments.