Later, Wacław Szybalski popularized the term in 1974 in reference to genetic engineering, but little did he know that one day ...

The field of synthetic biology is revolutionizing biomedicine, with applications in CAR-T cell therapy and biosensor-based ...

a bacterium commonly found in fermented food products, as a living diagnostic that could help improve disease surveillance in populations at risk of cholera outbreaks. Researchers are also applying ...

A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden rice , which is ...

Zhang, who had freshly started his own lab after working on metabolic engineering during his postdoctoral research with synthetic biology pioneer Jay Keasling at the University of California, Berkeley ...

Synthetic biology is the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes. Gene transfer enables ...

Synthetic biology holds much promise for the life sciences sector as it continues to look for new ways of treating disease and accelerating drug development, says Debiopharm's Tanja Dowe.

The history of synthetic chemistry offers a possible roadmap for the development and impact of synthetic biology, a nascent field in which the goal is to build novel biological systems.