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 Turned Human Cells into Tiny Biological Computers
Artist’s interpretation of a “circuit cell”. Credit: Ella Marushchenko For billions of years, cells have perfected their biological…
Synthetic Human Chromosomes Explained
IntroductionTechnologies enabling synthetic chromosomesApplications in research and medicineEthical and safety considerationsFuture outlookReferencesFurther reading From synthetic chromosomes and recoded…
All life runs on 20 amino acids. These cells run key machinery on just 19
Scientists equipped Escherichia coli (example pictured) with ribosomes that lacked the amino acid isoleucine.Credit: James Cavallini/Science Photo Library…
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…
Scientists Think the Most Extreme Beings on Earth Can Help Save Human Lives
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Discovered just over 60 years ago, extremophiles are bacteria,…
Resurrected ancient enzyme reveals early life processes and astrobiological biosignatures
By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have…
Academic AIs make inroads in protein binder design
Researchers from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design have developed a new variation of diffusion-based…
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…
A futuristic world: Top scientists working on turning bacteria into powerful computers! |
For decades now, our lives have been centered around computers built with silicon chips, wires, and metal circuits.…