From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

Chromosomes can vary in length and size, but they usually carry thousands of base pairs of DNA. While scientists have successfully edited the genomes of many creatures, most of those edits have been ...

A new university spinout company is hoping to use synthetic biology to transform gene therapy manufacture. SynGenSys, from the University of Sheffield, plans to tap into engineering design principles ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do. By Carl Zimmer At the heart of all life is a code.

Horseshoe crabs are among the oldest species on Earth. The prehistoric-looking creatures, more closely related to spiders and scorpions than crustaceans, have existed for about 450mn years. But most ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? "We find ...

Some conservation groups are calling for an effective ban on genetic modification, but others say these technologies are ...

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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Epic Bio, a biotechnology company developing ultracompact therapies to modulate gene expression in vivo, today announced its launch and Series A financing ...