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

The cell therapy field has long held a transformative ambition: to create "off-the-shelf" treatments that can reach not just ...

An international research team, led by Shinghua Ding at the University of Missouri, has identified a previously unknown ...

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.

The world’s largest network of environmental groups approved the exploration of genetic engineering tools to aid the ...

Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have described a new way to produce large amounts of xanthommatin, a natural pigment, in a bacterium for the first time. Xanthommatin ...

A new review by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute and other universities highlights how advances in New Approach Methodologies and tissue engineering are ...

Immunologist Zachary Rubin explains how the World Health Organization decides which strains of influenza end up in annual flu ...

Dive into the thrilling world of genetic engineering and creativity in our latest video, "How to Make a Zombie Megalodon Inside an Umbrella Laboratory." Discover step-by-step guidance on how the ...

A University of Missouri-led discovery could pave the way for improved diagnosis and treatment of unexplained movement ...

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

Some of the most expensive drugs currently in use are gene therapies to treat specific diseases, and their high cost limits ...