Kate Adamala started work on a cell in which the natural molecular structure is reversed. Then a possible doomsday scenario became clear.

Proponents of the use of synthetic biology say it could bring some species back from the brink of extinction and help fight ...

It's a technology that doesn't even exist yet, but its effects could be so drastically destructive that scientists in the field are calling for it to be banned now, before it's too late. We're talking ...

Some scientists looking to preserve vulnerable species have turned to a controversial technique: synthetic biology. This ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists on Thursday announced the creation of a synthetic organism stripped down to the bare essentials with the fewest genes needed to survive and multiply, a feat at the ...

Life is remarkably diverse. When you look around the world, you can find such astounding differences between each lifeform.

Douglas Blackiston, a developmental biologist at Tufts University, has always been fascinated by transformation. Using uncommon model organisms, from caterpillars and butterflies to tadpoles and frogs ...

What if a soft material could move on its own, guided not by electronics or motors, but by the kind of rudimentary chemical ...