Plant synthetic biology holds great promise for engineering plants to meet future demands. Genetic circuits are being designed, built and tested in plants to demonstrate the proof of concept. However....

Plant synthetic biology holds great promise for engineering plants to meet future demands. Genetic circuits are being designed, built, and tested in plants to demonstrate proof of concept. However, de...

Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) is under development to be grown as a winter annual intermediate oil seed bioenergy crop in the Midwest during typical fallow periods. Crucial work remains to domesticate ...

A company is selling what it calls the world’s first “code deployable biological computer.”

This method provides a robust approach for performing expansion microscopy in plant protoplasts for imaging single-cell and subcellular compartments at greatly enhanced resolution.

Biologist Kevin Cox, in Arts & Sciences, has discovered a low-cost way to more easily study the detailed makeup of plant cells. The ultimate goal is to help grow better crops, improving food security.

It’s not just that he’s misinformed. It’s the way his mind works that’s dangerous.