When you see large language models passing medical licensing exams, it’s easy to wonder—how long until AI becomes the doctor?

Yorgo El Moubayed is a program coordinator at the iGEM Foundation, running the world’s biggest synthetic biology competition.

Flowers grow stems, leaves and petals in a perfect pattern again and again. A new Cornell study shows that even in this ...

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.

While the concept of modifying living organisms has existed for centuries, the term "synthetic biology" was first coined in the 1910s. It was used by a French biologist named Stéphane Leduc in a ...

In today’s rapidly evolving scientific landscape, eliminating barriers to progress is more critical than ever. Precision medicine and targeted therapies hold great promise but are dependent on ...

Proteins are among the most studied molecules in biology, yet new research from the University of Göttingen shows they can ...

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 ...