Bone-destructive diseases such as osteoporosis and chronic inflammatory arthritis affect millions of people worldwide, ...

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Biomedical engineers at Georgia Tech created a treatment that could one day unlock a universal strategy for treating some of ...

A study published in the journal Cell marks the first reported instance of generative AI designing synthetic molecules that ...

For decades, the development of new drugs largely relied on chemical ... Professor Wendell Lim, has pioneered synthetic biology approaches for cell therapy to treat cancer and other complex diseases.

It is crucial to remove bottlenecks in synthetic biology workflows that impact the speed and progress of research and development ... of genetic changes on a cell’s metabolic functions ...

Researchers have developed a new stem cell model of the mature human amniotic sac, which replicates development of the tissues supporting the embryo from two to four weeks after fertilization. This is ...

In this issue of Nature Neuroscience, Nano et al. curate and mine a compendium cell atlas of human cortical development to identify gene programs that drive neuron subtype specification and ...

the team tracked exactly how active each synthetic enhancer became across seven stages of blood-cell development. They discovered that while many enhancers activate genes in one type of cell ...