Synthetic biology is the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes. SAMBA, a new ...

The integration of synthetic biology into environmental and resource management offers promising avenues for addressing sustainability challenges.

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

Synthetic biology does not lack for ambition. It would overhaul the genomes of microbes and other cellular platforms to build engines for the production of medicines, agricultural products ...

Synthetic biology seeks to develop the technologies and knowledge necessary to design and ... Elective courses will be announced and introduced over time, covering topics including computational ...

An important source for the molecular diversity needed to produce the materials and innovations of the future in Zymergen’s estimation can be found in synthetic biology approaches to designing ...

Biotechnology is accelerating. Nowhere is this more evident than in the frontier of synthetic biology, which views DNA as a programming language for creating new goods like petroleum-free plastics ...

Fifty-six synthetic biology companies pulled in just over $3 billion of equity investment in the first half of this year, compared with 65 companies raising $1.9 billion in the same period last year.

Synthetic biology—the engineering of new forms of ... That’s the way good scientists think: subject your work to peer review, seek falsification, and revise hypotheses as we learn more.