Synthetic Biology

Scientists from the UK and USA are using technology that helped in the design of a new synthetic vaccine to...

A Yale University lab has crafted the first synthetic molecules that have both the targeting and response functions of antibodies....

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and five other institutions have created a molecule that can cause cancer...

Synthetic genetic circuitry created by researchers at Rice University is helping them see, for the first time, how to regulate...

A long-standing challenge in synthetic biology has been to create gene circuits that behave in predictable and robust ways. Mathematical...

An international team of scientists led by Jef Boeke, PhD, director of NYU Langone Medical Center’s Institute for Systems Genetics,...

In a significant advance for the growing field of synthetic biology, Rice University bioengineers have created a toolkit of genes...

Engineers like to make things that work. And if one wants to make something work using nanoscale components—the size of...

The alien world of aquatic micro-organisms just got new residents: synthetic self-propelled swimming bio-bots. A team of engineers has developed...

For the first time, chemists have successfully produced an artificial cell containing organelles capable of carrying out the various steps...

In search of better cancer treatments, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have designed synthetic molecules...

MIT chemical engineers have developed a novel way to generate nanoparticles that can recognize specific molecules, opening up a new...

Similar to using Python or Java to write code for a computer, chemists soon could be able to use a...

"We're going to be able to write DNA. What do we want to say?" Professor Drew Endy of biological engineering...