While some may believe that science is better left to scientists, hundreds of amateur biologists around the world have been setting-up makeshift biology labs in their homes, garages and community ...

The world's first bio-brick grown from human urine has been unveiled by University of Cape Town (UCT) master's student in civil engineering Suzanne Lambert, signalling an innovative paradigm shift in ...

Austin L. Day, a senior at the University of California at Berkeley, holds up an IV bag filled with a brown-red liquid resembling bloody-mary mix. The unsavory concoction is Berkeley’s entry in a ...

Cambridge, Mass. – Bioengineering designs were on display last week at the second annual International Genetically Engineered Machines design competition. Student teams from 13 universities in the ...

For decades, evolutionary biology was a science of reconstruction, piecing together the past from fossils and DNA. Today, the field is defined by the 'Design-Build-Test-Learn' cycle of synthetic ...

Paul Freemont: So, what is synthetic biology? Well, it is not what people think it is. Some people think it's new biology, and what it is it's using our knowledge of biological systems and our ...

Biobricks is a trademark term for man-made DNA sequences encoding elementary modules that may be combined to produce more complex synthetic biological systems. The long-term goal of the Biobricks ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Leaders of a new movement are kicking off the first Synthetic Biology 1.0 conference at the Massachussets Institute of Technology this week. “Synthetic biology” is the blanket term ...