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 ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs and Yale University have created a system for engineering the first fully synthetic bacteriophages that could help with future clinical development of phage ...

Ville Santala, a biotech professor at Tampere University in Finland, is helping to tackle the plastic pollution crisis by using genetic engineering to create plastic-gobbling bacteria. According to a ...

"So, we are now colonizing that central space, and the bacterium is essentially ridding the body of the tumor." The post ...

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Bacteriophages have been used therapeutically to treat infectious bacterial diseases for over a century. As antibiotic-resistant infections increasingly threaten public health, interest in ...

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 ...

NIST researcher Elizabeth Strychalski’s research group is helping to establish the measurements and standards needed for progress in engineering biology, also known as synthetic biology. For over a ...