When he launched a career in biotechnology years later, his childhood fascinations turned him toward the field of synthetic ...

Though mirror biology might lead to improved drugs and other innovations, scientists have warned against potentially ...

A new synthetic lifeform, often referred to as “mirror life,” has recently emerged as a potential risk to humankind. With its ...

Douglas Blackiston, a developmental biologist at Tufts University, has always been fascinated by transformation. Using uncommon model organisms, from caterpillars and butterflies to tadpoles and frogs ...

Scientists have called for a halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research, believing it to pose ‘unprecedented risk’ to life on earth.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists on Thursday announced the creation of a synthetic organism stripped down to the bare essentials with the fewest genes needed to survive and multiply, a feat at the ...

It's a technology that doesn't even exist yet, but its effects could be so drastically destructive that scientists in the field are calling for it to be banned now, before it's too late. We're talking ...

The combination of AI and synthetic biology could lead to the creation of novel organisms with unintended and potentially harmful consequences. The democratization of genetic engineering through ...

DARPA’s new Biological Technologies Office, which was created this earlier this year, has continued to integrate biological research into national security objectives. Other programs under the office ...

Nili Ostrov has always been passionate about finding ways to use biology for practical purposes. So perhaps it wasn’t surprising that, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit during her postdoctoral studies, ...

GeneDx, Twist Bioscience and Wave Life Sciences are emerging as key players in the fast-growing genomics and synthetic ...