In nature, animals don’t recharge, they eat. Food is converted into energy through digestion, circulation and respiration. Fat stores that energy, blood moves it and muscles use it. Future robots ...

In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists at Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory have acquired detailed ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have addressed a longstanding challenge in CRISPR ...

Synthetic biology is reshaping how we approach therapeutics. Using engineering principles in biology, it is possible to “rewire” cells by reconstructing the underlying biological code to create new ...

"I'm mainly trying to develop a mathematical model for what's happening in biology in order ... In the lab, the T-cells are modified by adding a synthetic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR).

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists at the University of Stuttgart have succeeded in controlling the structure and function of biological membranes with the help of DNA origami. The system they developed may ...

A category of synthetic organisms dubbed ... that might never happen. I can draw you a list of things that need to happen to build a mirror cell,” Adamala says. “It’s not science fiction ...

“Our industrial revolution idea of manufacturing is an enormous factory powered by fossil fuels and this idea of a biomanufacturing system, where your real factory is, is individual cells,” Dudnik ...

Synthetic biology is an interdisciplinary field that brings together ... The ideation session focused on brainstorming, introducing participants to a structured approach they could draw on for ...