Developing novel ways to refine, reduce and replace the use of animals in research and enhance animal and human health.

An experimental DNA-based nasal vaccine has shown promising results against tuberculosis (TB) in animal studies, raising ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed an experimental therapeutic DNA vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) that is delivered through the ...

Synthetic cell SpudCell, the first built from non-living components by University of Minnesota synthetic biologists Kate ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell.

A new intranasal DNA vaccine may give the immune system an extra weapon against tuberculosis by targeting bacteria that can ...

If that sounds like the original vision of OpenAI—a big AI lab that started life as a high-minded non-profit—that, says Dr ...

Scientists have finally uncovered how bacteria naturally create multiple versions of powerful anti-cancer drugs, solving a mystery that has frustrated researchers for decades.

Invertebrate vaccine science has crossed a commercial threshold: Dalan Animal Health’s United States Department of ...

Scientists pieced together the genetic history of Acinetobacter baumannii — a notoriously stubborn hospital pathogen — using ...

While these are not artificial life forms created entirely from scratch, the work demonstrates an unprecedented level of control over the genetic software that powers living cells — and could reshape ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...