A Ph.D. student in biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has built a software program ...

Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now ...

Scientists have decoded the sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body—with organs in ...

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

In this interview, Professor James J. Collins, founder of the field of Synthetic Biology, discusses his journey to founding ...

An international research team led by the IPK Leibniz Institute has uncovered the molecular mechanisms governing the ...

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic ...

Supported by the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins researchers have created LiftOn, a new software tool that can ...

FlyBase, the world's only fruit fly database, is in the crosshairs of Trump's attack on Harvard. Here's why it could matter ...

By using a genetic technique developed at UT Southwestern Medical Center that forces cells to rid themselves of mitochondria, ...

Plants face simultaneous abiotic (drought, salinity, heat) and biotic (pathogens, pests) stresses in natural and agricultural ...

An ambitious new research project, SynHG (Synthetic Human Genome), is aiming to develop the foundational and scalable tools, technology and methods needed to synthesise human genomes. Through ...