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, ...

The U.S. government is divesting from mRNA vaccines, but will other uses of the technology be spared? In a time of ...

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

Winston Timp, the principal investigator of the Timp Lab and associate professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at the ...

In a separate 2024 study, researchers also made mice temporarily transparent. The study, published in Science, showed that ...

Transferring one species to another is how to create genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. This creates something not ...

Scientists around the world are racing to bring back extinct species — from the woolly mammoth to the dodo — using the power of genetic engineering. While it sounds like science fiction, new ...

and G—that make up the genetic code. The prevailing belief was that by decoding these sequences, we could unlock how cells and organisms fundamentally work. Now, research from Northwestern Engineering ...

As we enter entrepreneurship month this November, we’re celebrating the professors and alumni who are fueling job creation ...

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

Still, the recently released 2025-30 Arizona Bioscience Roadmap, as well as several academic, community and local government ...

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