Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change ...

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

The code of life is now editable and the question humanity must answer in the 2020s is not whether we can rewrite it—but whether we should, and for whom.

Scientists who built the first synthetic eukaryotic genome share hard-won lessons that could accelerate engineering of crops, ...

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological limitations have limited advancement of the field. While existing editing ...

Scientists at the Macquarie University in Australia worked with an international team of scientists to achieve a major milestone in synthetic biology by completing the creation of the final chromosome ...

The return of the long-extinct wooly mammoth or dodo bird may sound like a storyline straight out of science fiction. It’s not. Several de-extinction projects all share an ambitious aim to resurrect ...

Unquestionably, we will emerge from this revolutionary period with modified views of components of cells and how they operate, but only, however, to await the emergence of the next revolutionary phase ...

Key breakthrough for the return of the dodo: viable cells have been obtained and genetically modified birds have been prepared.

Humans have been selectively breeding cats and dogs for thousands of years to make more desirable pets. A new startup called the Los Angeles Project aims to speed up that process with genetic ...