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

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 ...

Scientists first observed the biological phenomenon of restriction and modification in the 1950s, but they did not identify and isolate restriction enzymes until the late 1960s. 3 In 1970, Hamilton ...

Synthetic biologists from Northwestern University and Stanford University have engineered a new system that transforms ...

Imagine trying to bake a cake without heat. You’ve got all the ingredients like flour, eggs and sugar, but nothing is happening. That’s what your body would be like without enzymes: potential but no ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sherlock Biosciences, an Engineering Biology company dedicated to making diagnostic testing better, faster and more affordable, today announced the discovery of ...

Ginkgo Bioworks is getting ready for another year of disrupting the entire biotech industry model with its versatile menu of biology engineering services. As a full-stack synthetic biology service ...

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

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