Researchers at Colorado State University have developed a tool that can be used to switch a plant's key genetic traits on or ...

Australian researchers are turning to nature for the next computing revolution, harnessing living cells and biological ...

Thirty years ago, terraforming Mars wasn’t just hard — it was impossible,” said Erika DeBenedictis, CEO of Pioneer Labs. Now, ...

The integration of synthetic biology into environmental and resource management offers promising avenues for addressing sustainability challenges.

Cell-free transcription–translation provides a simplified prototyping environment to rapidly design and study synthetic networks. Despite the presence of a well characterized toolbox of genetic ...

The synthetic control method builds a counterfactual using a weighted combination of potential control units. Methods We explain the synthetic control method, summarise its use in health research to ...

Abstract: The papers in this special section focus on artificial intelligence-drive applications for synthetic biology that promote human well being. Synthetic biology is an important branch of ...

The FDA approved three new natural food color additives — galdieria extract, butterfly pea flower extract, and calcium phosphate — to replace synthetic petroleum-based dyes. This move follows ...

Synthetic biology (SynBio) is a multidisciplinary area of research that seeks to create new biological parts, devices, and systems, or to redesign systems that are already found in nature.

Sun is among a group of Chinese researchers engaged in synthetic biology, an emerging field where scientists approach biological systems similarly to architects constructing buildings. By purposefully ...