Synthetic organizers provide a way to control formation of kidney organoids as more reliable models for studying disease and ...

Getting it over the finish line was a labor of love—and now, more than five years after her death, the lab of former Sloan ...

What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...

All living organisms are known to inherit genes, DNA sequences that contain instructions for producing specific proteins and ...

The cells made in Kate Adamala’s lab at the University of Minnesota are, in her own words, “wimpy” and “helpless”. They have ...

From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.

Scientists at the University of California San Diego have uncovered how genetic mutations cause a rare group of inherited neuromuscular disorders and identified promising new strategies to correct ...

Their bodies and their genomes were built in the lab from scratch, each molecule specified precisely. According to John Glass ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a breakthrough in synthetic biology.

Hearing that two people have the same type of cancer often leads to one assumption: they'll receive the same treatment. However, modern oncology has moved fa ...