In today’s rapidly evolving scientific landscape, eliminating barriers to progress is more critical than ever. Precision medicine and targeted therapies hold great promise but are dependent on the ...

There’s been this dream for decades. What if we could just print out an entire gene directly, one base at a time? —Daniel Lin-Arlow, Ansa Biotechnologies As scientists set their sights on cell and ...

This article explores limitations of chemical synthesis in high-throughput settings and the technical advantages enzymatic ...

Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) represents a transformative technology in which the molecular machinery of transcription and translation is extracted from living cells and employed in a controlled ...

Researchers can now design and mass-produce genetic material — a technique that helped build the mRNA vaccines. What could it give us next? Credit...Illustration by Jaedoo Lee Supported by By Yiren Lu ...

Twist Bioscience manufactures DNA. In the world of synthetic biology—a booming field that seeks to grow, harvest, and ferment new sustainable goods—custom DNA is a key ingredient. Before the pandemic ...

NUDT5 enzyme acts as a molecular scaffold that maintains metabolic balance. Inside every cell, a finely tuned metabolic network determines when to build, recycle or stop producing essential molecules.

I distinctly remember the day I first learned about using plasmids to manipulate bacteria during my undergraduate studies in microbiology. The experiment was quite simple, but at the time, I was ...

Reducing the time and expense of engineering PROTAC degraders remains a significant challenge in the pharmaceutical industry. A PROTAC is composed of an E3 ligase ligand (E3-L), a protein of interest ...