Northwestern University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), recognized leaders in the growing field of synthetic biology, recently received significant grant awards from the Army for ...

Synthetic biology has come a long way in the last two years. It is no longer dismissed as just another overhyped offshoot of the Human Genome Project, but rather is recognized as a transforming ...

Over the last few years, there’s been an explosion of information in biology. The mapping of the human genome gave biologists unprecedented detail about some 30,000 to 40,000 genes. Efforts are also ...

Researchers from MIT’s Department of Biology have developed a new computational method called FragFold, which shows promise for advancing biological research and therapeutic applications. The newly ...