Three nasal spritzes, now in advanced trials, could trigger stronger immunity than shots in the arm

The "Making Sense of Science" podcast features interviews with leading medical and scientific experts about the latest developments and the big ethical and societal questions they raise. This monthly...

You've probably heard of CRISPR, the revolutionary technology that allows us to edit the DNA in living organisms. Biochemist and 2023 Audacious Project grantee Jennifer Doudna earned the Nobel Prize...

New banana varieties with improved reduced-browning characteristics have been determined as non-genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the Philippines. The Certificates of Non-Coverage from JDC No....

Small beta barrel proteins are attractive targets for computational design because of their considerable functional diversity despite their very sm...

Nature Communications - DNA data storage has gained recent interest due to the high information density of DNA. Here, the authors have developed a method to directly capture information in the form...

Every time a new coronavirus variant emerges, scientists have to develop a new vaccine. However, now we have a unique candidate that offers protection against all present and future coronaviruses.

A key tool in the early pandemic response, monoclonal antibodies are now ineffective against new variants. Immunocompromised patients are especially at risk.

Anita Ramanathan outlines four synthetic biology approaches that are improving and accelerating drug discovery. 

The first NSCEB report, published in December, outlines the numerous ways biotech can improve human lives and well-being.

A team of chemical and biomolecular engineers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has developed a scalable way to use bacteria to convert CO2 in the air into a polyester. In their...

Our blue planet runs on ocean ecosystems that are currently in steep decline. In the last 50 years, the amount of fish captured from the ocean every year

We are developing a “bioradar” system, which pairs traveler testing at airports, points of entry, and farms with pervasive digital biothreat monitoring, then feeding these datastreams into modeling...

Humanity generates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data -- enough to max out the storage capacity of about 40 million iPhones -- every day. Much of it gets stored

Dmitriy Ryaboy on Deep Learning’s Quest to Decode Biology’s Mysteries.

Intertwining Indigenous knowledge with synthetic biology to restore Hawai‘i’s ecology

Humanity generates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data -- enough to max out the storage capacity of about 40 million iPhones -- every day. Much of it gets stored

Humanity generates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data -- enough to max out the storage capacity of about 40 million iPhones -- every day. Much of it gets stored

What excites investors like Bill Gates, Cathie Wood, and John Doerr about synthetic biology is the promise of programming the DNA of microorganisms like yeast as if they were a computer, and getting...

Nature - After decades of frustration and failed attempts, scientists might finally be on the cusp of developing therapies to restore immune ‘tolerance’ in conditions such as diabetes, lupus and...

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) regulate almost all cellular processes, and engineered PPIs have cell and gene therapy applications. Identifying all disruptive variants in human PPIs or charact...

What if we could use biology to restore our balance with nature without giving up modern creature comforts? Advocating for a new kind of environmentalism, scientist and entrepreneur Emily Leproust...