Research Articles
Redesigning Life: The Promise and Peril of Synthetic Biology
Exploring the revolutionary field of synthetic biology, its societal implications, and the ethical questions surrounding the engineering of life.
Redesigning Life: The Ethical Frontier of Synthetic Biology After COVID-19
Exploring the ethical dimensions and social implications of synthetic biology in the post-pandemic era, from mRNA vaccines to responsible innovation.
The Code of Life Gets an Upgrade: How Synthetic Biology is Rewriting the Rules of Medicine
Explore how synthetic biology is revolutionizing medicine through programmed living cells and standardized biological parts, supported by Synberc and IWBDA.
Synthetic Biology: The Next Step Forward for Industrial Biotechnology
Explore how synthetic biology is revolutionizing industrial biotechnology through engineering principles applied to biological systems for sustainable manufacturing solutions.
Taming the Cell: The Control Engineer's Quest to Program Life
Exploring how control engineering principles are being applied to program living cells in synthetic biology, creating predictable biological systems.
The Molecular Battery: How Scientists Built a Tiny Engine from Scratch
Discover how scientists created the first Single-Molecular Quinone Pool, a synthetic model of one of life's most crucial energy transducers.
The Tiny Bio-Factories: Engineering Microbes to Brew Green Chemicals
Discover how synthetic biology is engineering microbes to produce fatty acid-derived valuable chemicals, creating sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based products.
The Cell as a Factory: Building Life from Scratch with Synthetic Biology
Explore how synthetic biology is transforming living organisms from mysterious 'kinds' of life into programmable 'things' we can design and engineer.
Engineering Life: How Synthetic Biology and Polymer Science Are Building Tomorrow's World
Explore how synthetic biology and polymer science are converging to create a new era of biological engineering, with insights into applications, breakthroughs, and future challenges.
Synthetic Biology: Programming Life to Meet Humanity's Greatest Challenges
Explore how synthetic biology is revolutionizing medicine, manufacturing, and environmental solutions by programming living cells to address humanity's greatest challenges.