synthetic biology

In the Lab Ike Swetlitz

Synthetic human genome project releases its draft timeline

In the Lab Sharon Begley

Hacking life: Scientists ‘recode’ DNA in step toward lab-made organisms

Biotech Meghana Keshavan

A biotech startup is expanding the DNA alphabet in hopes of making novel drugs

In the Lab Ike Swetlitz

Forget the sci-fi horror stories. Here’s what we could learn from a synthetic genome

In the Lab Sharon Begley and Ike Swetlitz

Audacious project plans to create human genomes from scratch

In the Lab Ike Swetlitz

Top scientists hold closed meeting to discuss building a human genome from scratch

In the Lab Sharon Begley

Tweaking Mother Nature, biologists aim for better cancer-fighting cells