Synthetic biology
Probiotics as ‘living medicine’: Synthetic biology takes on gut diseases, metabolic syndromes
Engineered probiotics could relieve patients of metabolic diseases ...
Sustainable dyes and fabrics created through synthetic biology promise to revolutionize fashion industry
The fashion industry is responsible for 10 percent of global carbon emissions; that is more than air and sea transport ...
Viewpoint: Paper straws, vegan diets won’t stop climate change—but sustainable ‘bioproducts’ might
Are you slurping through a paper straw, searching for the next green product that will save the planet? Sorry to ...
Sustainable synthetic biology is taking over cosmetics, personal care
Synthetic biology companies are already producing many of the ingredients found in personal care products using biosynthesis, the same basic ...
Podcast: Turning mushrooms into bacon (and other cool stuff) to boost sustainability
Today John Cumbers [founder and CEO of SynBioBeta] talks with Eben Bayer, CEO and Co-Founder of the biomaterials company Ecovative ...
Using synthetic biology to design new kinds of life—and novel drugs to treat diseases
All living things on Earth are built from proteins created from the same 20 chemical units, called amino acids. Now, ...
‘Teaching plants new tricks’: How synthetic biology is reshaping agriculture
Aug 7-9, San Jose, California – the American Society for Plant Biology (ASPB) showcased the latest research in Plant Synthetic Biology ...
Using synthetic biology to solve some of ‘the hardest problems in the world’, with new foods, medicines
Many of the products we use every day—plastics, cosmetics, clothing, fertilizers, and even aspirin—include molecular ingredients derived from petrochemicals. But, ...
Following approval of GMO crops, Nigeria sets sights on other biotech advances, including gene editing and synthetic biology
Africa's most populous nation has achieved significant strides in biotechnology ...
Green chemicals: How DNA assembly tech streamlines microbe engineering to boost urban farming
Researchers at SMART, MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, and National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a technology that greatly ...
How fragile egg shells could help us repair, grow new bones
We think of eggshells as fragile. Yet these thin, easily breakable shells may be the key to making better, stronger ...
‘GMO is too simplistic’: Why industrial microbes need their own classification system
ASTM International is the global leader in voluntary technical standards. If you’ve ever worn a bicycle helmet, for example, you’ve ...
As technology ‘wipes out’ traditional work, biotech investment could revitalize rural America
Cow-free burgers are now all the rage — after Beyond Meats’ recent IPO, shares rose 163% on the first day ...
Creating a synthetic version of the Ebola virus to help fight the real thing
Scientists at the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention have created a synthetic version of the Ebola virus circulating in ...
Vaccines for influenza, other diseases will be ‘printed’ at home in the future
Rather than warehouses of refrigerated cures for static diseases, we need a highly distributed agile system for producing vaccines and ...
Video: Tech guru and author Rob Reid on synthetic biology’s power to help or destroy us
In 2011, two separate research teams—one in Holland, the other in Wisconsin—set out to repair this "defect" in H5N1. By ...
3D printed corneas could lead to transplants
Research led by Florida A&M University Pharmaceutics Professor Mandip Sachdeva has resulted in the creation of the first high throughput ...
Lab-grown patch could be the solution for repairing damaged heart tissue
Restoring damaged heart tissue has proved difficult if not impossible, but a research team from Imperial College London has a ...
Redesigning life: First living organism created with ‘fully synthetic’ genome
Scientists have created the world’s first living organism that has a fully synthetic and radically altered DNA code. The lab-made ...
Why synthetic biology is about much more than resurrecting woolly mammoths
Synthetic biology...Simply mentioning this term — whether at a cocktail party or on a pop culture TV show — evokes ...
Why biotech firms are jumping into the cannabis business
As biotechnology embraces the legal cannabis industry, not a few of its executives are grappling with a dilemma: what will ...
3D printed organs: We’re closer to solving the problem of how to supply them with blood
We’re tantalizingly close to growing organs in the lab, but the biggest remaining challenge has been creating the fine networks ...
‘Reverse engineering’ our brains with silicon chips could help us understand consciousness
The fact that computers “think” very differently than our brains do actually gives them an advantage when it comes to ...
Forget batteries and wires. Can we build robots out of synthetic DNA?
It's long been a dream of many to build robots that look and act like humans. After all, there's a ...
Using synthetics to design cells with new abilities ‘such as pumping out life-saving drugs’
A German team headed by Dr. Edward Lemke at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory described an entirely synthetic organelle inside living cells ...
Are we on the verge of extending human life with ‘regenerative superpowers’?
The excessive demand for donated organs will only intensify as technologies like self-driving cars make the world safer, given that ...
How synthetic biology could fight athletic doping with ‘biosensors’
It’s no secret that sports suffer from doping, the use of banned substances that enhance athletic performance. From Lance Armstrong ...
