Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

DNA synthesis is going global. The biosecurity rules aren’t keeping up.

How do you define biosecurity in the context of DNA? Peccoud: An internet search for biosecurity will return stories about security measures aimed at preventing pests or infectious agents from ...

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical minefield, with fears of a generation of ‘designer babies’ with pick ‘n’ mix ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh's Graham Hatfull has developed a method to construct bacteriophages with entirely synthetic genetic material, allowing researchers to add and subtract genes at ...

Researchers demonstrated that it is feasible to encode executable payloads into synthetic DNA that, once sequenced and ...

Britain has become home to the first major investment project looking to write human DNA completely from scratch, attracting both great excitement and grave concern from the scientific community.

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers this week introduced bills that would require U.S. firms to obtain a license before exporting sequences of synthetic DNA.

There’s an old saying about a dollar waiting on a dime. In other words, a monumental endeavor may become stuck at some point if a key preliminary element remains unavailable. The saying could be ...

The global synthetic biology market is poised for exponential growth, driven by a myriad of factors including increasing investments by government and private players, rising R&D funding and ...

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlas Data Storage, the leader in synthetic DNA data storage, today announced Atlas Eon 100, the first scalable DNA data storage service. DNA is the ...