Cammie Lesser will discuss how she turns a probiotic into a drug-delivering machine, while Andrew Y. Koh will describe the connection between the gut microbiota and cancer immunotherapy efficacy.

Pairing CARs with a synthetic receptor makes T cells more lethal tumor killers.

Cammie Lesser describes her research developing designer probiotics to deliver protein-based therapeutics to the gut.

An expert panel will present how synthetic biology accelerates the development of diagnostics, therapeutics, and the medicinal pipeline.

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.

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.

As artificial life forms become more sophisticated, we propose a simple list of criteria to determine whether synthetic biological organisms and robots are living beings.