Synthetic Biology

Designing and building biological systems, from engineered pathways to programmable cells.

26 articles

Synthetic Photosynthesis Produces Fuel Liquid from CO2

Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley have designed an artificial “plant” that can produce methane thanks to semiconducting nanowires and bacteria. In the synthetic photosynthesis,...

Bioengineering

Synthorx Makes its First Proteins with Novel Amino Acids

Synthorx Inc, a little known biotech startup from California, has announced success in creating in-vivo DNA with synthetic nucleic acids. The feat was possible thanks...

Bioengineering
Nanoscale 3D printing

New High Precision 3D Printer Line Launched at CES

A startup known as Old World Labs is presenting its new line of nanoscale 3D printers at the annual 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las...

Biotechnology
CRISPR/Cas

Agilent Releases SureGuide Tools to Ease CRISPR/Cas Research

Agilent is releasing its next generation gene modification workflow tools called SureGuide encompassing all the tools needed for CRISPR/Cas research. SureGuide follows other such CRISPR/Cas...

Bioengineering
IBM nanotech research

Artificial Nanoscale Factories Produce Biological Molecules

Researchers at ETH Zurich and IBM are reporting success in creating a nano biological assembly line, borrowing ideas from large factories. This is first time...

Nanotechnology
artificial polymer cell

The First Plastic Cell with Organelles that Work

A group of chemists led by Jan van Hest from the Institute for Molecules and Materials at Radboud University Nijmegen have developed a living cell...

Biomedicine

Researchers Print Cells Out of an InkJet Printer

A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge, UK have successfully manage to print retinal cells using an inkjet printer. A study which may...

Biomedicine
3D printing

3D Bioprinting – Genesis and Beyond

3-D printers work in the similar way as inkjet printers do. It utilizes digital data to deposit a desired material, instead of ink in successive...

Bioengineering