The vast majority of genes in the yeast genome are non-essential suggesting significant functional redundancy. In the December 14 Science, Amy Tong and colleagues describe an approach for ...

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 ...

Every fall, millions of Americans get their annual flu shots—and while they are at it, they now also get their annual Covid-19 boosters. Already, these shots seem routine; it is easy to forget that ...

The code of life is simple. Four genetic letters arranged in triplets—called codons—encode amino acids. These are the building blocks of proteins, the machinery that powers life. But the genetic code ...

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic eukaryotic genome in a Nature Biotechnology paper. Their insights could ...

“Our motivation is to understand the first principles of genome fundamentals by building synthetic genomes,” says co-author and synthetic biologist Patrick Yizhi Cai (@caiyizhi) of the University of ...