Synthetic biology is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles from biology, engineering, and computer science to design and construct new biological systems or redesign existing ones. It ...

The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) announced that the Synthetic Biology Promotion Act will take effect on the 23rd.

Synthetic biology is a discipline that allows the design and construction of metabolic and regulatory pathways, circuits, and networks that can be controlled. It also enables the creation of new ...

In Washington, DC, Xian-en Zhang, Director General, Basic Research Department, China Ministry of Science and Technology, stated that the People’s Republic of China is seeking to position itself as a ...

Northwestern Engineering's Master of Biotechnology Program (MBP) added a minor in the fast-growing field to help address everything from food supply shortages to vaccine Northwestern University's ...

Study helps lay the foundations for a future of “smart” tissue therapeutics that can be scaled to a patient’s needs.

The field of synthetic biology has seen impressive growth, both in scientific innovation and in financing, over the past few years. At the heart of the field is a mission to use biology to build a ...

In patients developing end-stage liver disease, the damage has become too severe for the liver's normally extraordinary ...

Bringing together engineers, physicists and molecular biologists, the field of synthetic biology uses engineering principles to model, design and build synthetic gene circuits and other molecular ...

In today’s rapidly evolving scientific landscape, eliminating barriers to progress is more critical than ever. Precision medicine and targeted therapies hold great promise but are dependent on the ...

In the beginning there were genes that begat genes that begat more genes. For 4 billion years, such was the cycle of biological life on this planet: Raw materials, aided by the invisible hand of ...

In the future, genetically modified organisms could be making our medicines, our fuel, our housewares, our houses — and they could even help us remake ourselves. All that may sound like ...