When he launched a career in biotechnology years later, his childhood fascinations turned him toward the field of synthetic ...

A bacterial molecule enhances chemotherapy. Its synthetic form could inspire new cancer drugs. An international group of ...

Microbiota-based therapies leverage gut microorganisms or their components to enhance human health.¹ Synthetic biology, a ...

Though mirror biology might lead to improved drugs and other innovations, scientists have warned against potentially ...

Scientists have built an artificial neuron that’s so realistic it fires, learns, and responds to chemical signals just like ...

A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden rice, which is genetically engineered to provide vitamin A, to advances ...

A synthetic microbiome therapy, tested in mice, holds promise as a new treatment for C. difficile, a notoriously difficult-to-treat bacterial infection, according to a team of researchers. The ...

With global energy demand climbing and climate challenges intensifying, researchers are exploring transformative new ways to ...

An international group of researchers has recently warned the broader scientific community and the public of the risks of mirror life—specifically, the creation of mirror microbes by scientists in the ...

In 1847 when Louis Pasteur first methodically separated left- and right-handed tartrate crystals from the cork of a wine bottle, the idea of creating life from oppositely handed molecules was almost ...