Australian scientists have developed a new genetic engineering tool that may make it much faster and cheaper to modify yeast, the workhorse behind many biomanufactured products

Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology research leader Professor Claudia Vickers has won the 2026 Life Sciences Queensland QIMR Berghofer Woman of Influence Award ...

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Scientists and research bodies routinely promise their work will benefit humanity. But new research from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology argues that it often fails to deliver in prac...

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For billions of years, evolution was driven by random mutations. A new breakthrough puts control over DNA, life’s blueprint, in human hands.

Scientists have found a new source of antibiotic resistance in an unexpected place: polluted freshwater sediment in NSW. Researchers at Macquarie University and The University of Sydney discovered a g...

Centre researchers whose work showed cannabis-derived compounds can kill dangerous fungal pathogens have secured a commercial partner to take those findings toward clinical use. Australian life scienc...

The ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology brought the case for sovereign biomanufacturing to Parliament House in Canberra last week, hosting parliamentarians, advisors, departmental officials ...

Researchers from the Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology have secured $2 million in ARC Linkage grant funds for projects spanning waste conversion, environmental conservation, and food security.

Two research leaders from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology have been elected 2026 Fellows of The Australian Academy of Science - one of highest honours an Australian scientist can rec...

Think of a painting of a black night sky. In the centre, left unpainted, is the outline of a tree. This is negative space, the artist’s trick of revealing an object through its absence. And according ...

After years in academia, Dr Lawrence Lee is betting everything on a technology that could rewrite the future of genomics. And he’s learned not to care who laughs