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From designing proteins not found in nature to extending healthy lifespan, Retro Biosciences is applying AI models to advance cellular reprogramming for aging research. The company operates across ...

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, ...

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

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

Sorghum bicolor is a deep-rooted, heat- and drought-tolerant crop that thrives on marginal lands and is increasingly valued ...

and G—that make up the genetic code. The prevailing belief was that by decoding these sequences, we could unlock how cells and organisms fundamentally work. Now, research from Northwestern Engineering ...

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Microcephaly is a congenital malformation that leads to a significantly reduced brain size and is often accompanied by developmental delay. An international research team led by Dr. Tran Tuoc from the ...

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.

Microcephaly is a congenital malformation that leads to a significantly reduced brain size and is often accompanied by developmental delay.