For the first time ever, a synthetic eukaryotic genome has been created. By taking yeast cells and rebuilding their genomes, scientists were able to create a yeast that more resilient and produced ...

The first-ever synthetic multicellular organism is ready to come to life after a Sydney breakthrough 10 years in the making.

Synthetic Life Report: Have "Instructions" and a "Scribe" Been Made? Almost. Many biologists think that the first life on Earth had instructions encoded not in DNA but in a primitive form of RNA.

Tiny droplets are powering big ideas in science. Researchers have developed a miniature, soft, and flexible lithium-ion battery made from biocompatible hydrogel. This new battery, smaller than a grain ...

Biology — the science of life, living things and the processes that keep us all running — links up in essential ways with ...

“Life is complex, and while we do have genome annotations for many microorganisms, we don’t necessarily understand what the full genome annotation is,” Robertson explained. Because of this, creating a ...

Flipping the script, some scientists are building synthetic cells from the bottom-up to ask fundamental questions in biology. Dekker’s current quest is to discover the minimal components a cell needs ...

It’s important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the timescale of a fast-moving field like synthetic biology, a decade is a very long ...

In this way, the Synthetic Sacred aims to shift the compass of development away from extraction and exploitation of life and towards restoration, kinship and flourishing. The Synthetic Sacred explores ...

Combining methods, principles, and knowledge from disciplines including biology, engineering, mathematics, and computational science, synthetic biology promises to transform both the life sciences and ...

These features are why researchers like me were so attracted to mirror life in the first place. But these qualities are also huge bugs of this technology that make it a problem. I am a synthetic ...