Designing genomes from scratch will be the next revolution in biology.
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Learn about the field’s first genetic circuits and read forecasts by George M. Church and J. Craig Venter of a future where man-made organisms pump out novel fuels, drugs, and therapies.
Researchers design a synthetic bacterium that kills the infectious microbe Pseudomonas aeruginosa, sacrificing itself in the process.
For the first time, researchers have engineered a multicellular organism that incorporates a synthetic amino acid into its proteins.
Researchers use directed evolution to create a bacterial strain that substitutes a synthetic base for thymine.
A method for rapidly replacing stop codons throughout the genetic code of E. coli paves the way for biomanufacturing designer proteins.
In a feat of computational biology, researchers design novel proteins capable of neutralizing a key influenza protein
The potential costs of regulating synthetic biology must be counted against putative benefits.
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