Chloroplasts—the "light power plants" of plant cells—are increasingly the focus of synthetic biology. These organelles house ...

Scientists have successfully created immature human egg-like cells from skin-derived stem cells, a significant step in ...

How AI, robotics, and precision medicine are transforming cancer care—bridging hope, technology, and humanity in the ongoing ...

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

While some practices remain controversial or speculative, biohackers are united by a shared curiosity: how can we engineer ...

Over the past two decades, synthetic biology has fueled advancements across a broad range of disciplines, including agriculture, bioremediation, biofuel production, and chemical manufacturing. Today, ...

At the iGEM competition in Paris, high school and collegiate teams from around the world compete against one another with ...

When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.

But more broadly, the technology ... a pathogen's genetics have been analyzed; conventional vaccine manufacturing takes ...

Researchers open up plant chloroplasts for high-throughput screening for the first time, enabling faster development of more ...

Tatsuya Nobori brings high-resolution multiomic approaches to plant biology to map how plants interact with microbes on a ...