Millions of tons of plastic waste accumulate in landfills and oceans every year. One promising response is to engineer ...

Scientists shared transcripts with The Times in which chatbots described how to assemble deadly pathogens and unleash them in ...

Ming, Professor of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) at The Hong Kong University of Science and ...

Against expert advice, people are using new and unpredictable synthetic drugs to experiment on themselves in hopes of ...

The approach uses a reprogrammed virus that evolves 160,000 times faster than the host, effectively training bacteria to ...

Though largely operating in the background until recently, Prolific Machines’ optogenetic approach to biomanufacturing is set ...

Adrian Woolfson discusses "artivolution," the future of engineered species, and the implications for humanity and nature.

Scientists have developed a new type of plastic capable of self-destructing on command. The material contains specially ...

An international team led by researchers at QUT has used artificial intelligence to create tiny "smart" proteins that switch on only when they detect a chosen target. Published in Nature Biotechnology ...

Serif Biomedicines has emerged from stealth mode to continue developing “modified DNA,” a new class of therapeutics designed ...

When the liver fails, toxins—such as ammonia—that should be filtered from the blood build up and reach the brain. The result is hepatic encephalopathy (HE), a devastating neurological complication of ...