AI design of gut microbiomes – Nature
AI design of gut microbiomes NatureWill dietary fiber help digestion? It might depend on your gut bacteria Medical XpressDuke University…
Synthetic cell grows, divides for the first time
A synthetic cell built from scratch — no living components, just liposomes, DNA, and 36 commercial enzymes standing…
This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And It’s Manmade.
A SpudCell on a microscope slide Scientists have long dreamed of discovering the alchemy by which chemicals can…
Scientists Bioengineer Photosynthesis in the Eyes to Treat Dry Eye Disease
AI-generated image. Photosynthesis is one of the most astonishing processes on Earth. Without it, we wouldn’t have plants.…
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…
A.I. Bots Told Scientists How to Make Biological Weapons
One evening last summer, Dr. David Relman went cold at his laptop as an A.I. chatbot told him…
‘Zombie cells’ return from the dead — after a genome transplant
These Mycoplasma capricolum bacterial cells have absorbed a genome engineered from a closely related bacterium, Mycoplasma mycoides.Credit: Thomas…
World’s first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life
AI-designed bacteriophages were capable of infecting and killing host bacteria. Credit: Lee D. Simon/Science Photo Library Scientists have…
Supervised learning in DNA neural networks
McCulloch, W. S. & Pitts, W. A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity. Bull. Math.…
Revolutionary Cortisol Test Lets You “See” Stress With a Smartphone Camera
A groundbreaking biosensor powered by protein design and smartphone cameras could transform how we measure the body’s stress…
Cells as Circuits: The need for Synthetic Biology in the Arab World – News
A new wave of synthetic-biology research is turning living cells into programmable devices, opening the door to innovation…
how AI is decoding the grammar of the genome
In 1862, Victor Hugo reportedly wrote to his publisher to ask how his newly published novel Les Misérables…