Synthetic Biology – News and Features

Scientists are using decades of knowledge garnered from sequencing or “reading” the genetic codes of thousands of living things to now start writing new volumes in the library of life.

Breakthroughs in high-throughput technologies, such as next-generation sequencing and mass spectroscopy, enable rapid progress of systems biology and synthetic biology towards a systems science approach.

Researchers have demonstrated way of creating a new type of biological "wire", using proteins that interact with DNA.

Biofuel and renewable chemical company executives, scientists and government officials from around the globe will speak in breakout sessions at BIO's 9th annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing.

Partnership to launch Gibson Assembly(TM) Master Mix product for synthetic and molecular biology applications.

Researchers from the University of Potsdam review biochemical studies of cyanobacterial pathways and how this can inspire the development of concepts for the design of bioactive compounds.

EU grants 5.9 million Euro to the newly launched research project ComplexINC, co-coordinated by Crelux.

Advanced protein engineering technology will enable Novozymes to bring down discovery time and expand project portfolio.

The grant from the Department of Energy is to build an algal fuel-producing bacterium.

Synthetic biology-based approach successfully re-engineers protein-making mechanisms in bacteria; documented in paper published in the journal Science.