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December 23, 2024
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Dec. 20, 2024 Researchers have developed a new technology that improves the precision and integration density of synthetic genetic ...
Dec. 4, 2024 Researchers have uncovered a serious side effect of using the CRISPR-Cas gene scissors. A molecule designed to make the process more efficient destroys parts of the ...
Nov. 18, 2024 An international team of researchers has achieved an unprecedented milestone: the creation of mouse stem cells capable of generating a fully developed mouse using genetic tools from a unicellular organism, with which we share a common ancestor that ...
Nov. 1, 2024 A team led by researchers has discovered that a group of cells located in the skin and other areas of the body, called neural crest stem cells, are the source of reprogrammed neurons found by other researchers. Their findings refute the popular ...
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Sep. 23, 2024 CRISPR-Cas is used broadly in research and medicine to edit, insert, delete or regulate genes in organisms. TnpB is an ancestor of this well-known 'gene scissor' but is much smaller and thus easier ...
Sep. 12, 2024 How can computer models help design microbial communities? Researchers examined the development perspectives of so-called synthetic biology. In a new article, they explain why computer-aided biology ...
Sep. 12, 2024 A professor of plant molecular biology wants people to know that plants have stem cells too. Just like in the medical world, plant stem cells could support human growth and development when used to ...
Aug. 19, 2024 The sea anemone Nematostella vectensis is potentially immortal. Using molecular genetic methods, developmental biologists have now identified possible candidates for multipotent stem cells in the sea ...
Aug. 13, 2024 Black soldier flies are now commercially used to consume organic waste -- but genetic modifications proposed by bioscientists could see the insects digesting a wider variety of refuse, while also ...
Aug. 12, 2024 Researchers genetically modified poplar trees to produce high-performance, structural wood without the use of chemicals or energy intensive ...
June 27, 2024 Synthetic biology combines principles from science, engineering and social science, creating emerging technologies such as alternative meats and mRNA vaccines; Deconstructing synthetic biology across ...
June 26, 2024 Bacteria possess unique traits with great potential for benefiting society. However, current genetic engineering methods to harness these advantages are limited to a small fraction of bacterial ...
May 30, 2024 Researchers have developed a novel version of a key CRISPR gene-editing protein that shows efficient editing activity and is small enough to be packaged within a non-pathogenic virus that can deliver ...
May 29, 2024 Research work on symbiosis -- a mutually beneficial relationship between living organisms -- is pushing back against the newer theory of a ...
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May 1, 2024 Scientists are harnessing cells to make new types of materials that can grow, repair themselves and even respond to their environment. These solid 'engineered living materials' are made by ...
Apr. 30, 2024 Researchers have discovered a new mechanism of oil biosynthesis and found a way to genetically engineer a type of test plant to more efficiently produce different kinds of seed oil that it otherwise ...
Apr. 29, 2024 The research explores how CRISPR can be used to edit ...
Apr. 23, 2024 Researchers describe the steps they took to manipulate DNA and proteins -- essential building blocks of life -- to create cells that look and act like cells from the body. This accomplishment, a ...
Apr. 3, 2024 Researchers have genetically engineered bacteria to grow animal- and plastic-free leather that dyes ...
Mar. 6, 2024 'Random DNA' is naturally active in the one-celled fungi yeast, while such DNA is turned off as its natural state in mammalian cells, despite their having a common ancestor a billion years ...
Feb. 14, 2024 Scientists unveil 145 genes vital for genome health, and possible strategies to curb progression of human genomic ...
Feb. 13, 2024 Researchers have created a new version of a microbe to compete economically with E. coli -- a bacteria commonly used as a research tool due to its ability to synthesize proteins -- to conduct ...
Feb. 6, 2024 Researchers have developed a new biocontainment method for limiting the escape of genetically engineered organisms used in industrial ...
Feb. 5, 2024 A new computer program allows scientists to design synthetic DNA segments that indicate, in real time, the state of cells. It will be used to screen for anti-cancer or viral infections drugs, or to ...
Jan. 30, 2024 New research demonstrates a new class of hydrogels that can form not just outside cells, but also inside of them. These hydrogels exhibited similar mechanical properties both inside and outside of ...
Jan. 9, 2024 An experimental study has shown that a type of skin bacterium can efficiently be engineered to produce a protein to regulate sebum production. This application could treat acne without compromising ...
Dec. 21, 2023 A new technique to clone and reassemble DNA, dubbed CReATiNG, could simplify and lower the cost to make synthetic chromosomes. Potential applications are numerous, including pharmaceutical ...
Dec. 13, 2023 Researchers have come one step closer to unlocking the potential of synthetic DNA, which could help scientists develop never-before-seen proteins in the ...
Nov. 9, 2023 Scientists used their expertise in quantum biology, artificial intelligence and bioengineering to improve how CRISPR Cas9 genome editing tools work on organisms like microbes that can be modified to ...
Nov. 9, 2023 A team of researchers has reported for the first time the live birth of a monkey that contains a high proportion of cells derived from a monkey stem cell line. This 'chimeric' monkey is ...
Nov. 8, 2023 Researchers have combined over seven synthetic chromosomes that were made in the lab into a single yeast cell, resulting in a strain with more than 50% synthetic DNA that survives and replicates ...
Nov. 1, 2023 Researchers have genetically engineered the first mice that get a human-like form of COVID-19, according to a new ...
Oct. 12, 2023 Synthetic biologists report on a new approach to attacking tumors. They have engineered tumor-colonizing bacteria (probiotics) to produce synthetic targets in tumors that direct CAR-T cells to ...
Oct. 5, 2023 Grass may transfer genes from their neighbors in the same way genetically modified crops are made, a new study has revealed. ...
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- RNA Origami Enables Applications in Synthetic Biology
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