This engineered genome will help experts tailor organisms to fit the needs of their ever-changing environments.

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing ...

Synthetic cells that look just like natural cells but are chemically reversed could outcompete other living organisms − with ...

Scientists have been working for decades to create synthetic cells that mimic key functions of biological cells. The challenge has been to make the artificial cells dynamic, responsive ...

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

Yale researchers have created "Ochre," a genomically recoded organism that enables the production of synthetic proteins with ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have made a breakthrough in the development of "life-like" synthetic materials which ...

Synthetic materials are made from natural resources. Synthetic materials are made by chemically changing the starting substances to create a material with different characteristics. Some examples of ...

Accumulation of fat molecules is detrimental to the cell. Researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding how our cells manage to stay healthy by recycling important fat molecules. Their study ...

or synthetic cells with engineered or expanded biological functions. The field of synthetic biology emerged as a result of revolutionary biotechnologies including high-throughput DNA synthesis, genome ...