Rice University scientists create electrical protein switches triggered by chemicals Scientists at Rice University have developed synthetic protein switches to control the flow of electrons.... Read more
UCLA/Caltech team uncovers a new and simple way to learn the structures of small molecules In a new study that one scientist called jaw-dropping, a joint UCLA/Caltech team has shown that it... Read more
A team of scientists from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed and demonstrated a pioneering synthetic biology tool to deliver DNA p... Read more
In a new scientific article, researchers at Uppsala University describe how, using a completely new method, they have synthesised an artificial enzyme that functions in the metabolism of liv... Read more
In a perspective published in the July 20 issue of Science, Neal Stewart and his University of Tennessee coauthors explore the future of houseplants as aesthetically pleasing and functional... Read more
In the rapidly growing field of synthetic biology, in which organisms can be engineered to do things like decompose plastic and manufacture biofuels and medicines, production of custom DNA s... Read more
Finding May Shed Added Light On, Offer Treatment Hope for Brain-Wasting Diseases Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers have synthesized the first artificial human pr... Read more
Researchers from the Pasteur Institute and Inria, with researchers from the CNRS and Paris Diderot University, and from the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) in Austria, have publish... Read more
In lab experiments and animal models, UNC and NC State researchers led by Zhen Gu, PhD, designed synthetic beta cells to secrete insulin in response to high blood sugar. Treating type 1 diab... Read more
Scientists sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) have genetically modified a common soil bacteria to create electrical wires that not only conduct electricity, but are thousands of... Read more
Researchers at the University of California San Diego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a strategy for using synthetic biology in therapeutics. The approa... Read more
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report in the current issue of Small that they have genetically designed a new strain of bacteria that spins out extremely thin and high... Read more
Technique combines analogue and digital processes in engineered cells. Living cells are capable of performing complex computations on the environmental signals they encounter. These computat... Read more
Scientists are trying to find a new way to produce the nutritional fatty acids called Omega 3 that are currently sourced from fish oil from the world’s declining natural fish stocks. In a gr... Read more
Computer program scrambles genetic codes for production of repetitive DNA and synthetic molecules Researchers have created a computer program that will open a challenging field in synthetic... Read more