California is banning them in schools. The FDA says they’re fine. But synthetic dyes added to food to make them more colorful have a long, troubled history.

Synthetic cells could mimic the first sparks that led to our existence. Several Dutch institutions are working together to ...

Researchers from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy have developed ...

IN AN EFFORT to produce graduates with chemical engineering and chemistry skillsets, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) ...

Researchers have explored how a particular chemical can selectively trap certain molecules in the cavities of its structure -- even though in normal conditions it has no such cavities. This innovative ...

Researchers have developed synthetic genes that function like the genes in living cells. The artificial genes can build intracellular structures through a cascading sequence that builds ...

These peptide-based materials material can be shaped and molded into various forms, making them adaptable for different types ...

"We had the idea of recreating in the lab similar gene cascades that, depending on the timing of gene activation, could induce the formation, or the disassembly, of synthetic materials," said ...

Scientists are designing simplified biological systems, aiming to construct synthetic cells and better understand life’s ...

One of the greatest questions of science centers on how life seemingly ... recreated the nutrient transport process in a synthetic cell, which is crucial to the function of the cell and only ...

Recently, a collaborative research team led by Professor Li Jiayang from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Science established a new synthetic ...

of synthetic materials," said co-author Franceso Ricci, a professor of chemical science at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. In their study, the researchers used building blocks of DNA tiles ...