Within the process of protein engineering, there are several points ... to mimic the second main mechanism of biological evolution: genetic drift. Genetic drift is the accumulation of random ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

Instead of relying on cows to produce casein, the essential protein responsible for milk’s structure and cheese-making ...

Evolution has been fine-tuning life at the molecular level for billions of years. Proteins, the fundamental building blocks of life, have evolved through this process to perform various biological ...

The field of plant biotechnology is undergoing a profound transformation. The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) ...

A new ML-guided platform can design thousands of new enzymes, predict how they will behave in the real world, and test their ...

This new tool, known as minimal, versatile genetic perturbation technology (mvGPT), combines the powers of gene editing, ...

A disrupted protein degradation process in heart muscle cells can lead ... USP5 levels trigger dilated cardiomyopathy. "Through a genetic intervention, we were able to specifically knock out ...

Rice University researchers have revealed novel sequence-structure-property relationships for customizing engineered living ...

For years, scientists have focused on amyloid beta buildup as the main culprit in Alzheimer’s disease, but a new study suggests the real problem might lie in a stalled protein-cutting process in the ...

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

Furthermore, the Obelisks contain genetic code to create a similarly new class of proteins, which the researchers named Oblins, and the process is reportedly much different than that used by viruses.