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

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

If humans are ever going to live beyond Earth, they'll need to construct habitats. But transporting enough industrial material to create livable spaces would be incredibly challenging and expensive.

If you’re one of the folks who looks forward to pumpkins every fall, the long summer wait can be tough. For farmers, the ...

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

The project will begin by making parts of a human chromosome, testing them in skin cells. Alongside the scientific work, a ...

Nature has the resources to collaborate to address many of our needs. Every living organism, from the simplest microbe to the tallest tree, contains a library of genetic information refined by ...

The Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the U of A recently named the 2025 recipients of its annual outstanding teaching and research faculty awards, including: ...

Tianjin University on Thursday celebrated two decades of pioneering synthetic biology in China, by hosting an academic forum ...

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic ...

This research could represent the first documented case of paracetamol production from plastic waste using E. coli bacteria.

Scientists have created living communities of bacteria and fungi that could survive in protective habitats on the Red Planet.