. Scientific Frontline: Synthetic Biology
Showing posts with label Synthetic Biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Synthetic Biology. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 29, 2026

GOOSE: Engineering Disordered Proteins

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A large, specialized T-cell interacts with a stylized tumor cell. The key visual is the large, engineered CAR (Chimeric Antigen Receptor) em...
Monday, July 20, 2026

Break-Free Plant Genome Engineering

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Photo Credit: Heidi-Ann Fourkiller Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Precise Plant Genome Engineering The Cor...
Tuesday, July 14, 2026

AI Predicts DNA Binding for Bioengineering

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Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : BINND (Binding and Interaction Neural Network for DNA) The Core Concept : B...
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Tumbleweed: The First Artificial Protein Motor

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Tumbleweed stands with two of its three feet attached to a DNA strand, with each foot binding to a specific DNA sequence. By adding or remov...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

RNA Barcoding Maps Virus-Host Dynamics

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Bacteriophage infecting bacterium. Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : RNA B...
Monday, June 8, 2026

Optimizing DNA Origami Nanostructures

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / Stock Image Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : DNA Origami Assembly Optim...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Living Bandage: Accelerating Wound Healing

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Wound-healing patches can vary in size and present indentations housing cytokine-secreting cells (right). In preclinical studies, delivery o...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

What Is: Xenobots

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Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : What Are Xenobots? Programmable Biological Organisms The Core Concept : Xen...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

Nanoscale drug factory helps cells make medicine from within

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Image Credit: Courtesy of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary ...
Sunday, May 10, 2026

Synthetic biology leads to recyclable textiles: Engineered protein fibers for a cleaner future

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The hair-like fiber pictured here is a sample of SAM, silk-amyloid-mussel protein hybrid, an engineered protein polymer that can be easily r...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Death-defying protein found in tardigrades preserves synthetic cells

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Yongkang Xi, Research Fellow for Mechanical Engineering, observes a microscopic image of tardigrade proteins within vesicles at GG Brown on ...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Gene circuits reshape DNA folding and affect how genes are expressed

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When a gene turns on, it creates structural ripples along DNA that can activate or suppress neighboring genes, MIT researchers find. Image C...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Synthetic Biology: In-Depth Description

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Synthetic biology is a multidisciplinary area of research that involves the design and construction of novel biological parts, devices, and ...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Scientists pave the way for fast, cost-effective custom enzyme development

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The SMART single-molecule display model, predicted by Alphafold3, shows SpDAAO (red) linked to a puromycin linker (magenta) through puromyci...
Monday, April 20, 2026

Study Finds Each Protein in the Epigenome Produces a Different Pattern of Gene Expression

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Image Credit: MJH Shikder. Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Epigenome Regulators and Dynamic Gene Expression...
Saturday, April 4, 2026

What Is: Synthetic Biology

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Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Synthetic Biology The Core Concept : Synthetic biology is a transformative ...
Monday, March 16, 2026

Engineered yeast gives the U.S. a green edge in the critical minerals market

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Researchers genetically engineered the metabolic pathways in yeast to produce oxalic acid, which can be used to extract free rare earth elem...
Thursday, October 9, 2025

Programmable proteins use logic to improve targeted drug delivery

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Therapies that are sensitive to multiple biomarkers could allow medicines to reach only the areas of the body where they are needed. The dia...
Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Scientists use quantum biology, AI to sharpen genome editing tool

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ORNL scientists developed a method that improves the accuracy of the CRISPR Cas9 gene editing tool used to modify microbes for renewable fue...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Rice scientists reengineer cancer drugs to be more versatile

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Rice University scientists have enlisted widely used cancer therapy systems to control gene expression in mammalian cells, a feat of synthet...