Ritvik Gupta, a junior at Johnson High School, has been named a National STEM champion, one of only two students from Iowa to ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

New research pinpoints 298 parts of the genome associated with higher risk of bipolar disorder. This could lead to better ...

Macquarie University researchers, alongside an international team, have achieved a significant milestone in synthetic biology by completing the final chromosome of the world's first synthetic yeast ...

After more than a decade of work, researchers have reached a major milestone in their efforts to re-engineer life in the lab, ...

Our biological sciences students explore the complexities of life and work to address global challenges in biology. Our faculty advance knowledge in a wide range of disciplines within the biological ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more resilient to significant structural changes than was previously thought.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, in collaboration with teams from Lund University and the Center for Regenerative ...

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out ...

The immense variation in the amount of DNA contained in the cells of organisms has long fascinated scientists. Known as the genome size (GS), or C-value of a species, the amount of DNA in one entire ...

"The synthetic yeast genome represents a quantum leap in our ability to engineer biology," says Dr Briardo Llorente, Chief Scientific Officer at the Australian Genome Foundry. The construction of ...