The engineering of biological systems holds great promise for developing solutions to many global challenges, including renewable energy production, material synthesis, and medical advancement.

Carolus Vitalis grew up in a small town in Chile—a town so small it doesn’t appear on any maps. Now he’s at the forefront of a large, impactful discussion: the pros and cons of artificial intelligence ...

The market continues to expand rapidly, with leading players achieving billions in revenue, thousands of engineered strains, and large-scale fermentation capacities, while governments worldwide ...

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic eukaryotic genome in a Nature Biotechnology paper. Their insights could ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Professor KIM Jae Kyoung of the IBS Biomedical Mathematics Group. (CREDIT: IBS Biomedical Mathematics Group) Randomness inside ...

As the climate crisis accelerates, there's a desperate need to rapidly reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, both by slashing emissions and by pulling carbon out of the air. Subscribe to our ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism — a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon — using a cellular platform that they developed ...

A research team has developed the "SUPER (Synthetic Upcycling Platform for Engineering Regulators)" platform, which dramatically enhances the performance and stability of gene regulatory devices. This ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, despite attracting some critics Through gene-editing, researchers in the field ...

The synthetic biologists from Imperial College London have re-engineered yeast cells to manufacture the nonribosomal peptide antibiotic penicillin. In laboratory experiments, they were able to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's not currently possible to create mirror bacteria, synthetic organisms in which the molecular structure found in nature is ...