Study uncovers key insights about how a new class of antiviral drugs works. Cryo-EM images showed the drugs bound to herpes simplex virus (HSV) protein at nearly atomic detail, while optical tweezers ...

Biologists mapping the human body have long assumed that every major kind of microscopic life inside us already had a place ...

A new study finds that at least one Archaea has surprisingly flexibility when interpreting genetic code, which goes against a ...

Aptamer Group plc, a developer of synthetic oligonucleotide-based binding reagents for life sciences applications, and ...

As a proof of concept, the engineers then used the same system to convert acetyl-CoA into malate, a commercially valuable ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

A combination of two classical biological laws, the global constraint principle delves deeper into complex biological ...

Scientists build a synthetic metabolism that converts CO2-derived formate into valuable chemicals outside living cells.

One of the biggest risk factors for developing liver cancer is a high-fat diet. A new study from MIT reveals how a fatty diet ...

In a breakthrough that defies nature, Northwestern University and Stanford University synthetic biologists have created a new ...

Natural biological systems cannot efficiently convert waste CO₂ or its derivatives into useful building-block chemicals at a scale that can keep pace with rising atmospheric carbon. Engineer a fully ...