Rice lab pioneers an assembly kit for synthetic sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. Rice University bioengineers have ...

Together, the professors and graduate students at both schools asked themselves two questions: "Can we take this technique and create educational kits to teach students the basics of synthetic biology ...

How can the field of synthetic biology help improve engineered living materials (ELMs)? This is what a recent study published ...

Bringing together engineers, physicists and molecular biologists, the field of synthetic biology uses engineering principles to model, design and build synthetic gene circuits and other molecular ...

(6) Using their synthetic biology expertise, scientists from Modern Meadow produced bio-based materials that structurally mimic leather. (7) Since collagen is an essential protein in the extracellular ...

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.