Those words came to mind again as I recently listened to Craig Venter, one of those leading the new areas of synthetic genomics and synthetic biology. Every time I hear a talk on this subject ...

A human retina, grown and monitored in a lab, has shed light on the development of cells required for color vision in the human eye. A technique for developing human retinas in a lab has been created, ...

At Northwestern University, synthetic biology researchers working with partners ... from scratch in a test tube. Others have previously tried to synthesize ribosomes from their constituent parts ...

Knudsen believes that this work, combined with efforts to mimic cancer development in the test tube, will yield new clues into the basic biology of cancer as well as benefit patients. "Hopefully," ...

Having a functioning clock that can be studied in the test tube (“in vitro”) instead of in living cells ... director of the Center for Circadian Biology at UC San Diego, of which Partch and LiWang are ...

Synthetic biology involves reconfiguring the DNA of ... so scientists can perform experiments without picking up a test tube. Other high-profile investors in synthetic biology include Vinod ...

One of the more innovative approaches uses a new technology called "synthetic biology." Jay Keasling is one of the leaders in this hot field. With his supershort crew cut and friendly demeanor ...

Scientists have finally recreated the initial steps of HIV infection in a test tube, offering an incredibly ... at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, who was not involved in the study ...

Recently, however, progress in understanding how teeth first develop has combined with advances in stem cell biology and tissue engineering technology to bring us close to the realization of ...

an associate professor of reproductive biology who helped lead the work. It’s taken decades of work to figure out how to make a puppy in a test tube. The world’s first human test-tube baby ...