Biotechnology US military wants to know what synthetic-biology weapons could look like Re-created viruses, toxic bacteria top new ranking of risks. by Antonio Regalado 2018-06-19T11:00:00-04:00
Biotechnology It’s fiction, but America just got wiped out by a man-made terror germ At “germ games” held in Washington, DC, pandemic planners get a look at the threat posed by synthetic biology. by Antonio Regalado 2018-05-30T00:00:00-04:00
Biotechnology This company can encode your favorite song in DNA—for $100,000 It’s not cheap. But Twist Bioscience thinks storing data in genes could be the next big thing. by Bryan Walsh 2018-04-06T09:58:00-04:00
Biotechnology Semi-Synthetic Life Form Now Fully Armed and Operational Could life have evolved differently? A germ with “unnatural” DNA letters suggests the answer is yes. by Antonio Regalado 2017-11-29T13:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life Gulp. These Volunteers Are Swallowing E. Coli Pills to Help Medicine Biologists are genetically modifying the DNA of stomach bacteria so they act like living drugs. by Antonio Regalado 2017-09-26T13:40:00-04:00
Biotechnology Edible CRISPR Could Replace Antibiotics Researchers are developing a probiotic to make disease-causing bacteria self-destruct. by Emily Mullin 2017-04-17T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life 5 Biotech Products U.S. Regulators Aren’t Ready For New techniques being used to produce our food or shape the environment raise regulatory questions. by Emily Mullin 2017-03-17T16:38:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Designer Chromosomes Point to New Synthetic Life-Forms An international effort aims to create baker’s yeast with laboratory-made DNA. by Emily Mullin 2017-03-09T14:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life Companies Bet on Designer Bacteria as New Way to Treat Disease Synthetic biologists are developing genetically modified bacteria that you swallow, but no one knows yet how they should be regulated. by Antonio Regalado 2016-11-08T00:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life On Patrol with America’s Top Bioterror Cop Will garage gene editing unleash a biological plague? Special Agent Ed You is ready if it does. by Antonio Regalado 2016-10-20T00:00:00-04:00
