The story of Ginkgo Bioworks shows the challenges and progress in the emerging field of synthetic biology. The synthetic biology labs of Ginkgo Bioworks, which plans to go public on ...

We face two major threats today: one to the health of our planet and the other to our own. The U.N. says the global population will hit 9.7 billion by 2050, meaning more people consuming more natural ...

Michael Köpke has spent more than a decade working for LanzaTech to create carbon recycling technology that could reduce emissions and make new products for a circular carbon economy. As the company ...

Biology at other schools may be considered traditional, but at RIT it’s anything but. Smartphones that monitor heart health via an ECG. Biodegradable plastics that don’t harm the environment. Urban ...

BioBits kits are designed to be used by students and teachers with no biological training. They use simple, hands-on experiments, to teach concepts of synthetic and ...

Finding ways to integrate electronics into living tissue could be crucial for everything from brain implants to new medical technologies. A new approach has shown that it’s possible to 3D print ...

No sooner had spatial biology made its way into the mainstream of genomic science than GEN figured out the key players in the emerging field, then ranked them for its first A-List of “Top 10 Spatial ...

Digital networks have changed the world by integrating into almost every aspect of our lives, but they have yet to directly integrate with the biology around us. Cardea’s proprietary Biology-gated ...

Wearing a tech-enabled device that can track your daily steps or keep track of your heartbeat during workouts has become something many of us take for granted. But we’re still on the forefront of ...