Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumnus and professor emeritus ...

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

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Over the past two decades, synthetic biology has fueled advancements across a broad range of disciplines, including agriculture, bioremediation, biofuel production, and chemical manufacturing. Today, ...

Bill Gates's comments on genetics as "code" have reignited debate over genetic engineering, intellectual property, and the ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

Tom Brady shocked fans by revealing his dog, Junie, is a clone of his late pet, Lua, created through advanced biotech cloning ...

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.

Tissue-engineered and chip-based models are changing how scientists study early cancer, leading to more accurate and humane ...

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...

Researchers open up plant chloroplasts for high-throughput screening for the first time, enabling faster development of more ...

In a separate 2024 study, researchers also made mice temporarily transparent. The study, published in Science, showed that ...