NIH funds mosquito genetics research to curb deadly disease spread
Mosquito-borne pathogens, including zika, yellow fever and other illnesses have serious and worldwide impacts on human health. The World…
Scientists create first man-made cell that can eat and grow
For centuries, humanity has wrestled with a profound question: what truly separates non-living matter from actual, breathing life?…
Synthetic Human Chromosomes Explained
IntroductionTechnologies enabling synthetic chromosomesApplications in research and medicineEthical and safety considerationsFuture outlookReferencesFurther reading From synthetic chromosomes and recoded…
CiQUS researchers develop flexible chemical strategy to create biomimetic synthetic cells
A team at the Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CiQUS) at the University of Santiago de…
VML just created the world’s first T-Rex leather
Creative agency VML, genomic engineering firm The Organoid Company, and sustainable biotechnology company Lab-Grown Leather have brought to…
Plastic bottles recycled into Parkinson’s drug using bacteria
University of Edinburgh researchers have used bacteria to turn plastic waste into a Parkinson’s drug, advancing a new…
Scalable synthetic biology revolutionizes targeted therapy with logic-gate proteins
Targeted drug delivery is a powerful and promising area of medicine. Therapies that pinpoint the exact areas of…
Genetic controllers for enhancing the evolutionary longevity of synthetic gene circuits in bacteria
Modelling and quantifying gene circuit evolution We develop an ordinary differential equation model of host-circuit interactions31,33 and augment…
The Future of Neonatal Probiotic Therapies
IntroductionTraditional approaches to supporting neonatal gut healthThe rise of modern neonatal probioticsIntegrating genomic tools into probiotic designChallenges and…
Amplifying antigen-induced cellular responses with proximity labelling
Su, X. et al. Phase separation of signaling molecules promotes T cell receptor signal transduction. Science 352, 595–599…
Cells found to lock genes at many steady points, not just two
MIT engineers have challenged a core idea in biology by showing that epigenetic memory is not simply binary.…