Sustainable materials—powered by sunlight and living microbes—that remove pollutants from water, release oxygen into a wound ...

At its core, the material is a water-rich hydrogel filled with cyanobacteria, one of the oldest life forms on Earth. These ...

Trinity College Dublin now has Ireland's first and only BioBrillouin microscope, which will enable researchers to make giant ...

By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois ...

How can the field of synthetic biology help improve engineered living materials (ELMs)? This is what a recent study published in ACS Synthetic Biology hopes to address as a team of researchers led by ...

Synthetic biology increasingly is moving from the laboratory to the marketplace, where it could help companies meet rising demand for sustainable materials, foods and fuels, therapies and vaccines.

Researchers at ETH Zurich are developing a model in the lab made from human breast milk cells. They hope it will help them ...

Unfortunately, while this lightweight, durable material made from petroleum and natural gas is a boon for our economy, it is also an environmental threat. In the United States, less than 10% of waste ...

To this end the Biology Department at Boston College offers three primary research opportunities to our students that also allow them to earn credit toward their Biology or Biochemistry degree – ...