We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

Professor David Williams, a New Zealander working on gene therapy at UCLA, has warned that the Bill is “unfair to farmers” and based on false assumptions about precision and safety. He points to ...

Chloroplasts—the "light power plants" of plant cells—are increasingly the focus of synthetic biology. These organelles house ...

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

Transferring one species to another is how to create genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. This creates something not ...

Over the past two decades, synthetic biology has fueled advancements across a broad range of disciplines, including agriculture, bioremediation, biofuel production, and chemical manufacturing. Today, ...

The biodefense market size is calculated at USD 17.98 billion in 2025 and is expected to reach around USD 32.87 billion by ...

From The Andromeda Strain to Jurassic Park, these are the most exhilarating novels written by the master of the ...

Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have described a new way to produce large amounts of xanthommatin, a natural pigment, in a bacterium for the first time. Xanthommatin ...

An international research team led by Shinhua Ding, a professor at the University of Missouri College of Engineering, has ...

diSArm clinical trial is that our phages injected intravenously can home in to the site of infection, penetrate biofilms, infect, and lyse S. aureus. Many deaths post flu, and most likely also ...