While some may believe that science is better left to scientists, hundreds of amateur biologists around the world have been setting-up makeshift biology labs in their homes, garages and community ...

Austin L. Day, a senior at the University of California at Berkeley, holds up an IV bag filled with a brown-red liquid resembling bloody-mary mix. The unsavory concoction is Berkeley’s entry in a ...

Cambridge, Mass. – Bioengineering designs were on display last week at the second annual International Genetically Engineered Machines design competition. Student teams from 13 universities in the ...

Paul Freemont: So, what is synthetic biology? Well, it is not what people think it is. Some people think it's new biology, and what it is it's using our knowledge of biological systems and our ...

For decades, evolutionary biology was a science of reconstruction, piecing together the past from fossils and DNA. Today, the field is defined by the 'Design-Build-Test-Learn' cycle of synthetic ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Leaders of a new movement are kicking off the first Synthetic Biology 1.0 conference at the Massachussets Institute of Technology this week. “Synthetic biology” is the blanket term ...