Scientists in South Korea have engineered tiny bacterial cells that are churning out plastic ... The problem is that the same ...

Biology might ultimately provide a solution, however. Researchers have identified bacteria that evolved the ability to digest ...

It’s important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the timescale of a fast-moving field like synthetic biology, a decade is a very long ...

Scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage invaders -- by seizing genetic material from weakened, dormant phages and using it to 'vaccinate' ...

John Glass, PhD is a synthetic biologist at the J. Craig Venter Institute. Glass was part of the team that created the first bacterial cell with a chemically synthesized genome. View Full Profile.