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, ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), biologist Jessie Vandierendonck has been investigating new, alternative ...

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An international team led by a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientist has created a first-of-its-kind resource ...

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Advances in cancer immunotherapy from immune checkpoint modulation to adoptive cell transfer of tumour-infiltrating ...

Australia's first genetically modified banana has been tweaked to protect it from a disease that's on the verge of wiping out ...

Because the new method can replace a large stretch of defective DNA with a healthy sequence, the same retron-based package can fix any combination of mutations within that stretch of DNA without ...

The goal of gene therapy is to permanently cure hereditary diseases. One of the most promising technologies for this is the ...