Synthetic biology holds promise but requires careful oversight to ensure that its development causes minimal to no harm, according to experts. This discipline aims to apply engineering principles to ...

Synthetic biology is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles from biology, engineering, and computer science to design and construct new biological systems or redesign existing ones. It ...

Scientific advances over the past several decades have accelerated the ability to engineer existing organisms and to potentially create novel ones not found in nature. This report explores and ...

Fossil fuel use has increasingly been linked to global warming and climate change over the past few decades. Consequently, ...

A novel approach that incorporates components from many disciplines, allowing people from many different backgrounds to access synthetic biology education. The field of synthetic biology, the science ...

Several round plastic containers rest on a surface, and each contains a small, striped frog. Juvenile Australian southern corroboree frogs at the University of Melbourne laboratories Credit: Tiffany ...

Cancer therapy and synthetic biology are converging around a shared problem that has long frustrated oncologists and engineers alike: the unpredictable behavior of individual cells. New work at the ...