Synthetic biology holds promise but requires careful oversight to ensure that its development causes minimal to no harm, according to experts. This discipline aims to apply engineering principles to ...

Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, William and Mary’s iGEM research team won a gold medal at the Grand Jamboree in Paris for its novel research in the field of synthetic biology. International Genetically ...

Synthetic biology is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles from biology, engineering, and computer science to design and construct new biological systems or redesign existing ones. It ...

Bringing together engineers, physicists and molecular biologists, the field of synthetic biology uses engineering principles to model, design and build synthetic gene circuits and other molecular ...

Fossil fuel use has increasingly been linked to global warming and climate change over the past few decades. Consequently, the search for alternative fuels and energy sources has accelerated in recent ...

Scientific advances over the past several decades have accelerated the ability to engineer existing organisms and to potentially create novel ones not found in nature. This report explores and ...