For over a decade, scientists have made extraordinary progress on the long-held dream of fabricating an entire cell from nonliving molecules and materials. Such synthetic (or "engineered") cells ...

NIST researcher Elizabeth Strychalski’s research group is helping to establish the measurements and standards needed for progress in engineering biology, also known as synthetic biology.

Researchers have harnessed synthetic biology to engineer chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells that precisely target and destroy cancer. However, these powerful cells can also attack healthy tissues ...

Perovskite, discovered by scientists nearly 200 years ago, has only recently come to be seen as a promising element for ...

For the first time, a research team has succeeded in emulating natural cell communication using synthetic cells. A team of researchers led by Professor Cornelia Palivan from the University of ...

Just by engineering it, you are faced with certain problems that you didn’t realize when you were studying the system top-down. —Cees Dekker, Delft University of Technology In the future, synthetic ...

Developmental and synthetic biologist Michael Levin redefines what life really is, how intelligence works, and what the ...

Scientists have created synthetic yeast that converts human urine into a valuable bone implant material, while also reducing ...

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and the University of Texas ...