But what is the field, exactly? As one engineer once quipped, ask five people the definition of synthetic biology, you’ll get six different answers, because one person is bound to be conflicted.

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

Synthetic biology has already proven its worth in ... There is a debate about living materials and its definition, she said. "Oftentimes I think some people think that these things are actually ...

Synthetic biology pulls from multiple scientific disciplines ... To be clear, each one is definable by the other, but each one maintains its own definition. Data privacy is typically associated ...

Instead, it’s a “mirror” of our biology—a completely synthetic form of life built from molecules that twist in opposite directions to our own. It might sound like the plot of a sci-fi ...

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

The transfer of this principle to artificial cells is a challenge in synthetic biology. Advances in DNA nanotechnology now offer promising solutions. They allow the creation of novel transport ...

The field, known as synthetic biology, is breaking down barriers in medical science and pharmaceuticals as well as food science and agriculture, energy and climate change research.