This initiative, now well underway, represents the largest and most complex silkworm gene-engineering project ever undertaken globally. The program builds upon years of proprietary research and ...

If you built a potato-powered clock as a child, you know plants can generate electricity. But scientists are now developing sophisticated methods to harness this power on a much larger scale. The ...

Using CLASSIC, Rice researchers realized that circuits are variable, having multiple pathways to elicit the same outcome.

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when the cellular ...

A research team led by the University of Oxford's Department of Engineering Science has shown it is possible to engineer a ...

Psychedelics, psychoactive substances that alter people's perceptions, mood and thought patterns, have recently shown promise ...

Rice bioengineers Gang Bao and Caleb Bashor are leading a project focused on exploring how biological systems derived from nature can be engineered to deliver long-form genetic instructions for the ...

Can one AI system meaningfully improve another without going back to expensive retraining runs? In other words, can our ...

Triterpenoid saponins are key bioactive compounds responsible for the medicinal value of many plants, yet how plants regulate the balance between saponin production and sterol biosynthesis has ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs (NEB®) and Yale University describe the first fully synthetic bacteriophage engineering ...

Scientists from UC Davis Center for Surgical Bioengineering, the MIND Institute and UC Berkeley’s Murthy Lab are developing ...