Synthetic Biology

An interview with MIT biologist David Sun Kong—on science, activism, and how biotechnology can empower ordinary people.

Demand from body builders, neonatal intensive care units, and Big Pharma fuels synbio substitutions for the goodness of breast milk.

We ask the experts what’s coming in the next 12 months.

Combining these two technologies can make CAR T cell therapy effective, accessible, and affordable for heart disease and cancer.

Regenerative medicine could get us there.

Pioneering synthetic biologist Pamela Silver drops some wisdom.

Within 10 years, archival data may be routinely stored in base pairs rather than bytes.

DARPA is developing an implantable device with bioengineered cells for treating everything from traveler’s diarrhea to jet lag.

Will fears of climate change cause Great Britain to loosen its restrictions on genetically edited crops?

This eclectic mix of researchers is exploring off-Earth living in radical new ways.