The first-ever synthetic multicellular organism is ready to come to life after a Sydney breakthrough 10 years in the making.

Later, Wacław Szybalski popularized the term in 1974 in reference to genetic engineering, but little did he know that one day ...

For the first time ever, a synthetic eukaryotic genome has been created. By taking yeast cells and rebuilding their genomes, scientists were able to create a yeast that more resilient and produced ...

Synthetic Life Report: Have "Instructions" and a "Scribe" Been Made? Almost. Many biologists think that the first life on Earth had instructions encoded not in DNA but in a primitive form of RNA.

Biology — the science of life, living things and the processes that keep us all running — links up in essential ways with ...

“Life is complex, and while we do have genome annotations for many microorganisms, we don’t necessarily understand what the full genome annotation is,” Robertson explained. Because of this, creating a ...

It’s important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the timescale of a fast-moving field like synthetic biology, a decade is a very long ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Synthetic motor oils have been around for a while now, longer than most gearheads realize. The first synthetic hydrocarbon oils were ...

Flipping the script, some scientists are building synthetic cells from the bottom-up to ask fundamental questions in biology. Dekker’s current quest is to discover the minimal components a cell needs ...

Here’s how to watch the new To Dye For documentary by Brandon and Whitney Cawood, as well as how to support one of its key contributors.

In this way, the Synthetic Sacred aims to shift the compass of development away from extraction and exploitation of life and towards restoration, kinship and flourishing. The Synthetic Sacred explores ...