We have gone further than ever before in creating life that is unlike anything that has evolved naturally. The genome of an Escherichia coli bacterium has been redesigned on a computer to use just 57 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – An investigation ...

This article is based on a poster originally authored by ACROBiosystems. Plasmid DNA (pDNA) is widely used in various clinical, commercial, and research and development bioprocessing applications, ...

Latvian health officials have completed their investigation into an outbreak and general rise in E. coli which led to almost 80 sick people. The Center for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC) said ...

On the ISS, viruses can still infect bacteria, but the process slows and pushes both organisms to evolve along different paths ...

In the past decade or so, biomedical technology has been revolutionized by a gene editing technique known as CRISPR, which uses a guide RNA molecule to direct a DNA-cutting enzyme to a specific ...