Biotechnology News – Latest Headlines

Subscribe to our Biotechnology News feed

Schnitzel made in the petri dish meets with acceptance

In-vitro meat might help solve problems caused by meat consumption.

Oct 13th, 2017

Chemists use modified DNA nucleotides to create new materials

Scientists have published an important demonstration of repurposing of DNA to create new substances with possible medical applications.

Oct 12th, 2017

Understanding the rice genome for bioenergy research

Genome-wide rice studies yield first major, large-scale collection of mutations for grass model crops, vital to boosting biofuel production.

Oct 9th, 2017

Designing new selective reactions to modulate biological processes

Researchers present a new synthetic method which could become a powerful tool to investigate the inner working of cells.

Oct 9th, 2017

A smarter way to screen molecular libraries

Large-scale screening of mutant yeast strains allows researchers to home in on and assign functions to biologically active chemical compounds.

Oct 6th, 2017

Completing the drug design jigsaw

A powerful new way of analysing how drugs interact with molecules in the body could aid the design of better treatments with fewer side-effects.

Oct 5th, 2017

Designer biosensor can detect antibiotic production by microbes

Researchers have engineered designer biosensors that can detect antibiotic molecules of interest. The biosensors are a first step toward creating antibiotic-producing 'factories' within microbes.

Oct 3rd, 2017

Visualizing life in silico

A new interface allows any cell biologist - not just master programmers - to run biological models on the Virtual Cell supercomputer.

Oct 3rd, 2017

How molecular scissors cut in the right place

Scientists have found out how CRISPR-Cas9 - also known as 'molecular scissors' - can search the genome for a specific DNA sequence.

Sep 29th, 2017

Scientists create endocytosis on demand by 'hotwiring' cells

A solution to the problem of creating endocytosis on demand is being compared to 'hotwiring' a car.

Sep 28th, 2017

Mini-protein rapid design method opens way to create a new class of drugs

The method quickly produces small, stable proteins for custom-designed therapeutics that may have applications in fighting flu, toxins or other disease agents.

Sep 28th, 2017

Using spare parts might 'jump-start' protein design

By going back to nature's drawing board - evolution - scientists have created new proteins, based on 'existing natural parts', that carry out their intended function with flying colors.

Sep 27th, 2017

Researchers develop gene circuit design strategy to advance synthetic biology

Scientists and engineers have developed synthetic gene circuits that program the functionality, performance, and behavior of living cells. These gene circuits hold great promise in medical and biotechnological applications, but to date, most circuits are constructed through a manner, which relies on a designer's intuition and is often inefficient. Researchers have addressed the challenge by constructing an integrated modeling framework for quantitatively describing and predicting gene circuit behaviors.