Lobsters are often described as biologically immortal, but the reality is more complex. Their bodies use a rare enzyme that allows cells to keep repairing themselves as they age. This process prevents ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

For decades, Parkinson’s disease has been framed as a simple story of dwindling dopamine, a slow erosion of the brain’s ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

Northeastern University researchers have made a breakthrough drug discovery, developing the first synthetic endogenous ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Heersink School of Medicine have identified a bacterial enzyme that may be the ...