Microplastics and nanoplastics range from mountain peaks to brain cells, raising urgent questions regarding their impact on human health.

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

For the first of these tasks Dr Baker and his colleagues use RF diffusion, an AI model they have developed to predict a ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

Synthetic lichens could transform Martian dust into self-growing habitats for future Mars bases and 3D printed buildings.

Cornell researchers have found a new and potentially more accurate way to see what proteins are doing inside living ...

The advance was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by researchers at the UC San Diego Materials ...

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

The massive project will likely take decades to complete, but it has significant oversight built into it to ensure it remains ethical.

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical ...

Synthetic biology is reshaping how we approach therapeutics. Using engineering principles in biology, it is possible to “rewire” cells by reconstructing the underlying biological code to create new ...

Using light-sensitive enzymes, scientists now precisely control cell movements, opening new possibilities in synthetic biology and advanced medical treatments. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) ...