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TIANJIN -- A Chinese research team has made a significant leap in the field of synthetic biology by precisely synthesizing and assembling large-scale human DNA and successfully transferring it across ...

Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) have developed a ...

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If NIH prioritizes human-based science in its ongoing overhaul of biosafety policies, the oversight system that has evolved for review of a wide-swath of biological research could atrophy and expose ...

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The U.S. Pharmacopeia has approved synthetic alternatives to horseshoe crab blood for bacterial endotoxin testing, a ...

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Christine Dunham is a leading expert on the ribosome—an elaborate macro-molecular machine that operates like a factory within ...