In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or improved functions is crucial, but current methods ...

ORACLE, a powerful new tool that speeds up evolution, allowing scientists to design and improve proteins thousands of times ...

The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for different purposes ...

While the concept of creating synthetic life from nothing is still firmly in the science fiction category, synthetic genomes are now reality. Researchers—led by synthetic biologist Hugh Goold of ...

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Synthetic genomics Synthetic genomics generally refers to a branch of synthetic biology where research focus is on creating viruses, bacteria and eukaryotic cells that possess synthetic genomes.

Scientists have created the first cell controlled by a human-made genome — a step closer to artificial life that is drawing both praise and warnings of potential dire consequences. A team from ...

David Kwan (right) is assistant professor in the Department of Biology and a researcher at the Centre For Applied Synthetic Biology and Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics. Steve Shih is ...

Dr. Holt and his UBC group are tackling that very problem. One option for sparking life in a lab-made genome, he explained, is to transplant the synthetic DNA into the shell of an existing microbe.

The DNA code, or genome, is contained in a brand-new bacterium dubbed JCVI-syn3.0. The genome is not some one-and-only minimal set of genes needed for life itself.

Dr. Venter, who also launched a company in 2005 called Synthetic Genomics, has received a multimillion-dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to find a clean energy source, possibly from ...

This synthetic genome tech means that life-forms can be customized depending on what aspects need to be enhanced. As part of the Sc2.0 Project, for example, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae was ...