Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed software that reduces the time needed for a key task in the development of custom microbes from a week to just ...

Bioengineers combine engineering principles with biological sciences to design and develop therapeutics, diagnostic tools, artificial organs, and biomedical software that advance healthcare and ...

The rise of the bioeconomy — defined as the utilization of renewable biological resources to produce food, materials and energy — has been propelled by groundbreaking advances in synthetic biology, ...

Plant bioengineering—in which plant genes are modified to include desirable characteristics—is the key to solutions for problems concerning crop resilience and food security. Elements like gene ...

A novel method has enabled scientists to 3D-print structures into live cells, paving the way for a new class of intracellular bioengineering tools and applications. In a first, scientists from the ...