Some of the more commonly known and grown oilseed crops in the U.S. have long been canola, soybeans and sunflowers, but a ...

Biotechnologist Sebastian Cocioba started hacking plants to put himself through college. Now, from his home lab on Long ...

Experts sounded an alarm about the potentially lethal risks of creating mirror bacteria, synthetic organisms in which the ...

Synthetic biology is the design and construction of ... but not those from green land plants. Modular synthetic G-protein-coupled receptors with nanobody-based ligand-recognition domains can ...

A research team led by Timothy Durrett, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, and doctoral conferee Linah Alkotami used synthetic biology ... the burning bush plant—in pennycress ...

The goal of synthetic biology is to design and build biological systems that are beneficial to society ... defined as processes that develop or utilize natural or genetically-modified living cells or ...

Scientists warn about the potential dangers of "mirror bacteria," synthetic organisms made from reverse biological molecules ...

The researchers said that their concerns are not about stifling innovation but about ensuring scientific progress aligns with ...

Japanese synthetic biology has an advantage ... s team can suggest the insertion of candidate genes into a microbe or plant cell that codes for enzyme catalysts that correspond to desired chemical ...

Scientists have uncovered surprising ways transcription factors, the genetic switches for genes, regulate plant development. Their findings reveal how subtle changes in a lipid-binding region called ...