Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing more of a specific protein, even proteins that would normally destroy them, ...

Researchers at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CEB) have found a new way to organize molecules inside living cells, opening possibilities for more controlled and efficient ...

Scientists say they have created a partly man-made bacterium that can produce proteins not found in nature. This new life form, the latest development in a field called "synthetic biology," could ...

The U.S. Pharmacopeia has approved synthetic alternatives to horseshoe crab blood for bacterial endotoxin testing, a regulatory shift that could reduce the pharmaceutical industry’s reliance on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lab-made ‘mirror bacteria’ could endanger all life on earth, scientists warn “Mirror bacteria” made in a lab could endanger all ...

Even the most disparate forms of life on this planet have one thing in common—they're made of the same building blocks. As scientists seek to better understand the molecular nature of life, the ...