Over the past five years, scientists have been able to build protein structures from unnatural amino acid chains. These proteins properly fold up ... Michael Hecht, a synthetic biologist at ...

Proteins are among the most studied molecules in biology, yet new research shows they can still hold surprising secrets. Researchers have discovered previously undetected chemical bonds within ...

and to open up a new avenue for making medicines. His work, which relies heavily on recent advances in artificial intelligence and synthetic biology, had taken him from one prestigious protein lab ...

And now the creation of a completely new and unnatural protein has been effectively demonstrated with the semi-synthetic organism ... could allow scientists to build entirely alien molecules ...

The body uses protein-based molecular motors to perform functions essential to life. Now, researchers have created ‘The Lawnmower,’ the first synthetic ... dirt it picks up,” said Nancy ...

Over the past 15 years, he has created the tools to build ... synthetic drugs are small molecules that are quickly cleared from the body, and GM versions of natural proteins can be chewed up ...

“We believe that the tight integration of computational protein design and scale-up capabilities will result in a cascade of synthetic biology innovation, creating superior performance and ...

Targeted degradation has the potential to treat diseases associated with pathological protein build up. Here ... T cell therapeutic strategy based on synthetic antigens that are delivered to ...

How can the field of synthetic biology help improve engineered living materials ... the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus that was engineered to create a specific protein they manipulated to enable the ...

synthetic biology to ‘program’ microbes to produce target molecules). Right now, producing protein – whether from peas and soybeans or cows and chickens – is resource-intensive and time ...