Using materials already approved by the FDA, Harvard engineers have developed a new surface coating…
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Biotechnology is the use of biological systems, organisms, or their components to develop innovative technologies and products that improve health, agriculture, industry, and the environment. By combining biology with tools from fields like genetics, engineering, and computer science, biotechnology enables breakthroughs such as gene editing, synthetic biology, biopharmaceuticals, and sustainable biofuels. It plays a critical role in addressing global challenges—from fighting disease and enhancing crop resilience to reducing pollution. Explore this page for the latest advances, applications, and research shaping the rapidly evolving world of biotechnology.
By simply altering the composition of the medium in which the yeast are grown, engineers…
Using a gene-editing system that can disable any target gene, MIT engineers have shown that…
A newly published study details how researchers at Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at…
Researchers from A*STAR have developed a high-capacity method to purify monoclonal antibodies that uses magnetic…
A newly published study details how scientists from Kiel University developed a nano-structured transportation system…
A newly published study details how researchers at The Scripps Research Institute were able to…
In a newly published study, MIT researchers show that a new gene-editing technique, known as…
Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a new type of low-temperature fuel cell that directly…
Using genetically engineered yeast cells and ordinary table sugar, engineers from the Cockrell School of…
In a newly published study, researchers from the Columbia University Medical Center detail how they…
Oceanographers from Scripps UC San Diego have discovered a microorganism that produces a chemical compound…
Neurologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have successfully shown that human embryonic stem cells, which…
Using nanoscale diamond-like particles called nanodiamonds, researchers have developed a potentially more effective treatment…
Scientists at the University of Georgia have discovered a way to transform carbon dioxide trapped…
In a newly published study, Yale University researchers detail how they engineered a system that…
In November, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine implanted a pacemaker-like device into the brain of…
By removing a few genes, inserting a gene from another organism and tinkering with the…