Synthetic Life
In an editorial accompanying an ebook titled "Beyond open access: visions for open evaluation of scientific papers by post-publication peer review,"...
Fuels including gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel are derived from fossil oil thorough the petroleum refinery processes. Increased concerns over...
Artificial muscles and self-propelled goo may be the stuff of Hollywood fiction, but for UC Santa Barbara scientists Omar Saleh and Deborah Fygenson...
Researchers at Penn State University have developed a chemical model that mimics a possible step in the formation of cellular life on Earth four-...
By force of habit we tend to assume computers are made of silicon, but there is actually no necessary connection between the machine and the material...
As humans, we create life. And we’re all familiar with the idea of artificial intelligence. But what about artificial life? What is it, and why...
HMS professor leads effort to streamline biological engineering.
rofessor Pamela Silver of Harvard Medical School (HMS) believes in biology’s...
Although George Church's next book doesn't hit the shelves until Oct. 2, it has already passed an enviable benchmark: 70 billion copies—roughly...
Today PLOS ONE is happy to announce the launch of the Synthetic Biology Collection, including over 50 papers published in the last six years that...
In May, a group of Japanese researchers announced that they had successfully synthesised the first artificial synapse – a development that could...

















