Low-Cost Microbe: Engineered Bacteria Used As Alternative Host for Scalable Synthetic Biological Experiments

Medicine & Technology Feb 15, 2024

A team of researchers have created a new version of a low-cost microbe to compete with E. coli which is commonly used as a research tool. Learn more about it in this article.

Artificial Enzymes Programmed To Fight COVID-19 Virus Formed by Scientists Using Synthetic Biology

Nov 17, 2022

Biologists from Cambridge University develop an artificial enzyme that is programmed to fight COVID-19 virus. Learn more about this news here. Read now!

A Better Approach to Coronavirus Vaccine Plausible? Synthetic Biologists Think So

Mar 10, 2020

Regardless of the companies' initiative to rush in developing and testing vaccines that fight the new Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as the National Institutes of Health, bet that scientists, particularly the synthetic biologists, "can do even better than what's currently in the pipeline."

LEGO Goes Green: The Toy Company Announces its First Steps Towards Sustainability with its New Toy Kit

Dec 16, 2019

This is not the first time the toy company made an effort to be environmentally-friendly. LEGO partnered with the World Wildlife Fund to promote global action on climate change and was able to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions in terms of manufacturing and supply chain operations.

The Future of Home-Brewed Medicines and How Researchers Are Pushing Past Original Elixirs

May 19, 2015

Humans have always sought ways to alter their consciousness. Throughout our history as a species we have created and improved techniques for growing, brewing, processing, and, now, synthesizing mind-altering substances. Now, researchers from Concordia University in Quebec and University of California, Berkeley have detailed the steps needed to morphine from scratch from a simple yeast fungus.