For over a decade, scientists have made extraordinary progress on the long-held dream of fabricating an entire cell from nonliving molecules and materials. Such synthetic (or "engineered") cells ...

Recently, scientists harnessed these movements using beams of light to control cellular behavior, taking a big step toward creating programmable synthetic cells. Every living thing—from bacteria ...

Researchers have harnessed synthetic biology to engineer chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells that precisely target and destroy cancer. However, these powerful cells can also attack healthy tissues ...

To this end, scientists are creating lipid-based synthetic doppelgängers of cells and organelles to ask fundamental questions about biology. Oskar Staufer, a biophysicist at the Leibniz Institute for ...

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 ...

A study published in the journal Cell marks the first reported instance of generative AI designing synthetic molecules that ...

(CN) — For the first time, scientists have used generative AI to create synthetic DNA that can control how genes behave in ...

Researchers use light stimuli to shape cells and develop a model that explains the mechanisms – with implications for synthetic biology. A main characteristic of all living organisms is that ...