Our cells produce a variety of proteins, each with a specific role that, in many cases, means that they need to be in a ...

Phosphorus – the same element used in the striking surface of matchboxes – is fundamental to life. It’s a key component of ...

The team at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology calls their creation Syn57. It is a synthetic ...

Step by step, the fragments were stitched together into the final, fully synthetic bacterium. The result, Syn57, is the most ...

RNA-binding proteins use a dual binding mechanism involving zinc finger (ZnF) domains and intrinsically disordered regions ...

We've heard of GMOs, but this is ridiculous. A bombshell report published by scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular ...

Sunday's launch was the 50th time a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft has visited the International Space Station; the first time was ...

Votoplam (PTC518) for Huntington's Disease shows promising phase 2 results; a key FDA meeting in Q4 2025 could enable ...

This study presents a valuable comparison of the efficiency and precision of two prime editing methods to introduce single-nucleotide variants and longer exogenous DNA sequences into the zebrafish ...

Scientists have created a bacteria with a genetic code more streamlined – and more meddled with – than any other life on ...

The synthetic bacteria contain a shorter genetic code with 57 codons rather than 64, freeing up space for further edits that might lead to new drugs or virus-resistant microbes ...