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Extinction is still forever, but scientists at the biotech company Colossal Biosciences are trying what they say is the next best thing to restoring ancient beasts鈥攇enetically engineering living animals with qualities to ...
A basic business principle is that no worker is irreplaceable; that also holds true for most proteins, the cellular factory workers of our bodies. If we fire a protein鈥攖hat is, permanently delete it from our genome using ...
A new study has identified a genetic circuit in plants that controls individual leaf growth and allows the plants to adapt to their environment. The findings could help the development of more drought-resistant crops.
The British company Oxitec, in partnership with Australia's CSIRO, has announced plans to release genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in Queensland.
Saccharina japonica, one of the most widely cultivated seaweeds globally, is particularly prominent along China's coastline, where it has been farmed in both cold-temperate and subtropical waters. Although traditional selective ...
Insects do a lot more harm than ruining picnics. Some insects spread devastating diseases, while others cause staggering economic losses in agriculture. To control some of these pests, scientists are developing males that ...
A research team has introduced an innovative solution for the depolymerization of polyethylene terephthalate (PET). This solution utilizes an engineered whole-cell biocatalyst based on the thermophilic bacterium Clostridium ...
Researchers around the world are working on new technologies to capture carbon from the atmosphere, but many approaches fall short on one key metric: their ability to scale. Nature, however, has already developed its own ...
A team of scientists from the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences鈥揃iotechnology at Forschungszentrum J眉lich worked together with the company Novonesis to develop a bacterium that "eats" individual building blocks of different ...
Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism鈥攁 novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon鈥攗sing a cellular platform that they developed enabling the production ...
