Weight-loss drugs have surged in popularity, promising rapid results with regular injections. Now, researchers from Japan report a way for the body to make its own weight-loss drugs, doing away with ...

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

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

Creating a synthetic human genome has the possibilities of improving human healthspans, but it also comes with extremely ...

Scientists with the Synthetic Human Genome Project are trying to create artificial human DNA from scratch, leading to ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project is working to build synthetic human DNA but who is asking how this science will impact ...

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

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are ...

A team of UK-based scientists are developing technology to create the first synthetic human chromosome. The ability to write large genomes has the potential to transform our understanding of human ...

Investors interested in the Genomics and Synthetic Biology theme should consider these stocks: Twist Bioscience Corporation, Wave Life Sciences, and CRISPR Therapeutics AG.

While the concept of creating synthetic life from nothing is still firmly in the science fiction category, synthetic genomes are now reality. Researchers—led by synthetic biologist Hugh Goold of ...