Scientists have developed a new molecule that can deliver powerful immune-activating treatment directly to cancer cells, ...

By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

Professor Hirohide Saito (Department of Life Science Frontiers at CiRA / The University of Tokyo) and Assistant Professor ...

By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois ...

Genetic circuit engineering is the bottom-up, local approach to synthetic biology; to be distinguished from top-down, global genomic engineering.

Biology provides the basis for innovations from medicine, health, and agriculture, to defense, energy, and manufacturing. Join the National Academies on for a workshop session that will explore ...

Computational biology and bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops and applies computational methods to analyse large collections of biological data, such as genetic sequences ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project is working to build synthetic human DNA but who is asking how this science will impact ...

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic ...

Synthesizing viral genomes plays an important role in fundamental virology research and in the development of vaccines and antiviral drugs. Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) is a large DNA virus ...