A review in Quantitative Biology demonstrates that scientists can now reliably build and combine very large pieces of DNA, ...

Robotics and DNA nanotechnology converge to create dynamic systems capable of intelligent, adaptable functions. These DNA machines could play pivotal roles in biomedicine, single-molecule analysis, ...

A new project to build human DNA from scratch could lead to the creation of real life Frankensteins, boffins fear. Work has begun on a controversial mission to create the building blocks of human life ...

NEW YORK (AP) — At Jef Boeke's lab, you can whiff an odor that seems out of place, as if they were baking bread here. But he and his colleagues are cooking up something else altogether: yeast that ...

At Jef Boeke's lab, you can whiff an odor that seems out of place, as if they were baking bread here. But he and his colleagues are cooking up something else altogether: yeast that works with chunks ...