Repurposing Living Systems to Fight a Pandemic

Scientists rely on synthetic biology and cell-free expression systems for developing novel approaches to combat the pandemic.

Junior faculty in particular may lose ground as undergrad students remain barred from university labs.

Here’s how my group put our research on pause and how we’ve continued our work from home.

A newly engineered synthetic blood vessel offers a novel platform for developing drugs that treat high blood pressure.

Researchers are engineering microbes to deliver therapeutics specifically to tumors, maximizing the treatments’ efficacy while minimizing side effects.

Autonomous, living microrobots that seek and destroy cancer are not as futuristic as one might imagine, thanks to a fusion of robotics and synthetic biology.

Scientists carve the shapes from piles of frog cells, like a sculptor building a statue.

Bacteria that take in inorganic carbon could have applications in sustainable biofuels.