Synthetic biology
Podcast: How synthetic biology can tweak DNA in viruses, plants or even animals to improve the environment, health, agriculture and industrial processes
Welcome back to Dirt to Dinner: Digging In, where we dig into what’s going on in the food and ag world ...
GLP Podcast & Video: Synthetic biology makes $10,000 perfume way cheaper; ‘Fashionable organic fantasies’ at the WEF; Sleeping pills cause dementia?
A bottle of perfume used to cost more than $10,000. The price has dropped precipitously thanks to advancements in synthetic ...
GLP Podcast: CRISPR biosensors; Engineered gut microbes; Anti-GMO groups love the lab-leak theory
Researchers have developed a biosensor they say can monitor the activity of CRISPR gene editing in real-time. Synthetic biology is ...
Cheese without the cow: Could bioengineering produce animal-free dairy products?
Australian-US firm Change Foods is creating cheese from scratch using bio-engineering technology, claiming that their products will hold an advantage ...
Synthetic biology ‘apps’: Here comes a revolution in medicine, chemicals, agriculture and food
Today, anyone who can code can win in the internet economy. Thanks to services such as Amazon’s AWS and Apple’s ...
‘We can’t make dinosaurs come to life – yet.’ How far can synthetic biology turn science fiction into fact?
A team of Los Alamos scientists are developing “cell-free systems.” They take the guts of the cells and use the ...
Bioprinting: Creating pinhead replicas of human organs to fight COVID-19 and other ailments
Anthony Atala, the director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and his team are… creating tiny replicas of ...
Opening the floodgates to synthetic biology innovations in drugs, textiles, agricultural products and advanced materials
Today’s DNA makers still create their products using chemistry. To form a new double helix, the individual letters of DNA ...
Injecting live bacteria into tumors? Synthetic biology revives a controversial century old cancer cure
Could the body, in fighting against a pathogen, also be battling a tumor? After injecting bacteria into a patient who ...
World’s first bionic eye could be better than the real thing
The world's first 3D artificial eyeball -- capable of outperforming the human eye in some ways -- may help droves ...
‘Sugar is the villain’: Biohacking and synthetic biology do battle against diabetes and heart disease
Here’s a look into the next generation of low-calorie sugar alternatives and continuous glucose monitoring systems set to change the ...
If we want to go to Mars, we’ll need to figure out how to feed our astronauts. Synthetic biology can help.
Revolutionary food production and closed-loop biomanufacturing could transform human space travel and address the growing food crisis on Earth ...
Synthetic biology will help us feed ourselves with drought-tolerant crops as climate change accelerates
Drought stress has been a long-time limitation to crop production that is being exacerbated by climate change and associated reductions ...
Disease is the greatest threat to bee health. Can we protect them through genetically engineered probiotics?
If you cannot engineer the organism, engineer its microbiome. Since scientists began exploring how to solve problems using synthetic biology, ...
Synthetic biology amps up ‘decades-old’ vaccine technology
According to STAT, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Institute of Health (NIH) are betting on synthetic biology to ...
Coronavirus vaccine created with synthetic biology would be ‘more potent’ than flu shot
As companies hurry to test potential vaccines, the National Institute of Health (NIH) is hoping new bio-engineering techniques to help ...
EU Commission enlists climate-neutral crops and other sustainability tools to meet Green Deal goals
Under its Green Deal, the European Commission has presented a[n] .... action plan that prepares the ground for a sustainable ...
Electricity from genetically engineered trees: It’s not as crazy as it sounds—but is it ethical?
What if trees could provide electricity to cities? .... This surrealist idyll isn’t too far-fetched, say a team of researchers ...
Synthetic biosensors: Engineered plants could detect flu viruses and crop pests before they become global problems
You’ve felt sick ever since you started working in a different office .... but building management can’t find the source ...
Fighting the coronavirus outbreak with genetic sequencing, CRISPR and synthetic biology
We are better prepared for a coronavirus outbreak than a few years ago ...
Can we prevent a synthetic DNA catastrophe—accidental or intentional—through these proposed safeguards?
New approaches to DNA editing and synthesis have made it easier to manipulate biological agents and systems, increasing the risk ...
Synthetic booze: Lab-made wine, sake may be coming to a bar near you—and whiskey is already there
San Francisco startup Endless West unveiled two products Thursday, Feb. 20, the likes of which have never been sold before: ...
Fashion future? 5 surprising industries synthetic biology could take over
In this post, we highlight a few of the growing fields where burgeoning synthetic biologists can expect to find job ...
Artificial life forms—’with no mother or father’—could change the way we develop vaccines
Every living creature on Earth has parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and so on—representing an unbroken line of ancestry all the way ...
Creating a synthetic version of the coronavirus fuels hopes of treatments — and conspiracy theories
Synthetic versions of the deadly virus could help test treatments. But what are the risks when viruses can be synthetized ...
‘Serious trouble’ for the natural world. Can synthetic biology protect it by redesigning insects and saving threatened species?
A paper in the journal PLOS Pathogens described how they synthetically engineered mosquitoes to stop the spread of dengue fever, a viral tropical disease ...
Boosting Australia’s fire recovery by ‘terraforming’ damaged lands with synthetic biology
Biotechnology can provide valuable tools for fire prevention and restoration ...
