Cells constantly shift and transform, triggering the complex choreography that shapes living organisms. Whether dividing into ...

If it already feels like every day is like an apocalypse in the making here's another existential risk to ponder. Imagine a ...

15 For example, synthetic microbial strains might undergo horizontal gene transfer with exposed natural organisms, which could lead to the unintended expression of synthetic genes outside of a ...

What would a commercial operation using synthetic organisms look like? J.C.V.: Currently, companies are looking at large facilities to convert sunlight to fuels or oil or production of foodstuffs ...

Synthetic biology specialist GRO Biosciences started exploring strategic alternatives about six months after raising a series ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism — a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon — using a cellular platform that they developed ...

The time required to design, construct and test a synthetic organism is declining owing to several central technologies. Large-scale genome sequencing projects have provided a toolbox of microbial ...

Both conservationists and synthetic biologists agree that there’s potential for unforeseen effects when synthetic organisms interact with natural systems, so they advocate for “precautionary ...

But beyond mere tinkering, the potential applications for engineered cells that exhibit diurnal rhythms are many. For instance, synthetic organisms could be designed to produce and secrete drugs at a ...