For example, GMO pigs have been created with ... One of the biggest breakthroughs in synthetic biology came in 2012 with the commercialization of CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary gene-editing tool.

That success stands as the most prominent example of the power of synthetic biology, a field whose possibilities have excited me since I first heard the term more than 15 years ago. As scientists ...

Synthetic biology can also be used in the context of biosensing and regulation for cellular homeostasis which alter the progression of a disease. An example of synthetic biology in this context is ...

A new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute outlines six core ethical challenges in synthetic biology, including ...

Here, we review the practical applications of synthetic biology in biosensing, therapeutics and the production of biofuels, pharmaceuticals and novel biomaterials. Many of the examples herein do ...

For example, modified organisms might produce toxic molecules or exhibit new pathogenic traits as a result of the changes to their genomes. Synthetic biology has been around for decades and is ...

This is a great example of how the combination of wet lab technology and computational power can bring the dream of synthetic biology future to life, where everything is made with biology from the ...

A team from Macquarie University and the ARC Center of Excellence in Synthetic Biology (COESB ... of a fruit fly's entire neural network—an example of the neuroscience field of "connectomics ...

For example, Collins’ group recently demonstrated the potential ... Researchers are also applying synthetic biology to engineer living cells and cell-free systems that can sense and dynamically ...