Synthetic biology holds promise but requires careful oversight to ensure that its development causes minimal to no harm, according to experts. This discipline aims to apply engineering principles to ...

Synthetic biology is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles from biology, engineering, and computer science to design and construct new biological systems or redesign existing ones. It ...

Bringing together engineers, physicists and molecular biologists, the field of synthetic biology uses engineering principles to model, design and build synthetic gene circuits and other molecular ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have completed construction of the final chromosome in the worlds' first synthetic yeast genome following more than a decade of work, opening new possibilities for creating resilient, ...

A conversation with HE HUANG, vice president of Nanjing Normal University, and a leading member of Jiangsu Synthetic Biology Basic Research Centre Functional lipids are fats that provide health ...

Fossil fuel use has increasingly been linked to global warming and climate change over the past few decades. Consequently, the search for alternative fuels and energy sources has accelerated in recent ...

Several round plastic containers rest on a surface, and each contains a small, striped frog. Juvenile Australian southern corroboree frogs at the University of Melbourne laboratories Credit: Tiffany ...