Last year, during the Global Synthetic Biology (SynBioBeta) conference, Ansa Biotechnologies’ CEO Jason Gammack introduced attendees to the company’s first product—600 bp synthetic DNA constructs.

Scientists have harnessed the potential of bacteria to help build advanced synthetic cells which mimic real life functionality. The research, led by the University of Bristol and published today in ...

A large international team has created a strain of yeast in which half of the 16 chromosomes are synthetic ones that have been redesigned and created from scratch, in a major step towards creating the ...

Depurination of DNA and RNA sequences is an alteration of the sugar-phosphate backbone in which hydrolysis of a purine base (adenine or guanine) occurs. Synthetic oligonucleotides suffer from such ...

The code of life is simple. Four genetic letters arranged in triplets—called codons—encode amino acids. These are the building blocks of proteins, the machinery that powers life. But the genetic code ...

Aduro Clean Technologies has successfully completed initial testing of synthetic turf as a feedstock for its proprietary hydrochemolytic technology (HCT), demonstrating a potential solution for a ...