synthetic biology

Researchers are adapting CRISPR, synthetic biology, and other creative approaches to detect SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acids outside of the lab or doctors’ offices, in the hopes of making diagnostics more affordable and accessible.

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.

Integrating a specialized histone into large segments of transgenic DNA enables centromere formation.

Recruiting an epigenetic instigator of centromere formation into large segments of cloned DNA facilitates their transformation into artificial chromosomes.

Genetic engineers have co-opted base editing machinery to enable information storage and processing in the DNA of bacterial and mammalian cells.

Scientists create a soft-bodied robotic fish that pumps synthetic blood and swims on its own.

Study shows the viability of bacteria with human-made, recoded DNA.