Synthetic biology is already rewriting life.In late 2023, scientists revealed yeast cells with half their genetic blueprint replaced by artificial DNA. It was a...
José D. Guimarães1,2,3, Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy3,4,5, and Luís S. Barbosa3,61Centro de Física das Universidades do Minho e do Porto, Braga 4710-057, Portugal2Institute of Theoretical...
Nature has a set recipe for making proteins.Triplets of DNA letters translate into 20 molecules called amino acids. These basic building blocks are then...
IntroductionAging can seem like an unregulated process: As time marches along, our cells and bodies inevitably accumulate dings and dents that cause dysfunctions, failures...
CRISPR ended 2023 with a bang.In November, the gene editing tool scored its first clinical approval for treating sickle cell anemia and beta-thalassemia in...
The emerging tech world provided a frenzied year of big bets and weird twists, dominated by an unquenchable enthusiasm for artificial intelligence. As the...
Pharma giant AstraZeneca has signed a $247 million deal with Ai drug creation company Absci to develop an antibody designed to fight cancer.
The collaboration...