Turning Plastic Waste into Medicine: Biocompatible Chemistry Breakthrough in E. coli Imagine a world where plastic waste doesn’t end up in landfills or oceans but instead becomes the starting point for life-saving medicines. Researchers researchers are working towards this reality by ... biocompatible chemistry E. coli Lossen rearrangement metabolic engineering paracetamol biosynthesis plastic upcycling sustainable manufacturing synthetic biology
AlphaGenome: Ushering in a New Era of Genomic Insight with AI Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome can read the complex code of your DNA, unlocking secrets that determine health, disease risk, and the subtle mechanisms that make us unique, offering scientists a powerfu... AI in biology DeepMind disease research gene regulation genomics synthetic biology variant prediction
RNA’s Hidden Structural Powers Are Changing Molecular Biology For decades, RNA has been seen primarily as a messenger—carrying genetic instructions between DNA and the machinery that makes proteins. But recent research has upended this view, revealing that RNA i... biotechnology cryo-EM molecular biology RNA SLAC Stanford synthetic biology
Rutgers Scientists Are Turning Living Cells into Smart Biosensors Envision a future where your own cells can alert doctors to early signs of disease or exposure to environmental toxins—all by using the natural molecules already inside them. This is no longer just sc... biosensors cellular engineering disease detection environmental monitoring RNA technology Rutgers research synthetic biology