Md. Scientists Build Bacterial Chromosome
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Scientists in Maryland yesterday said they had built from scratch an entire microbial chromosome, a loop of synthetic DNA carrying all the instructions that a simple cell needs to live and reproduce.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ Scientists have coaxed a common soil bacteria into strengthening the ground it lives in, raising the prospect of new construction techniques for stabilizing slopes or reducing earthquake damage.
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Talk about identity theft: Scientists changed one species of bacteria into another by performing a complete gene swap.
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Scientists identify a gene fault linked the development of lung cancers.
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Researchers claim to have  found a way to make MRSA vulnerable to the antibiotic it normally resists.
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Genetics pioneer Craig Venter has news from the frontiers of biology.
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Scienctists have discovered widespread transfer of bacterial genes into the genome of numerous invertebrates.
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The much-heralded genome is just a parts list. New research is revealing when, and why, genes do what they do in living cells--a big step toward understanding, and ultimately curing, disease.
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Scientists have deciphered the process one species of bacteria uses to "resurrect" its genetic material after being blasted by radiation or parched by lack of water.
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Scientists in Dundee find a potential link between a chicken gene and human diseases.
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Wired Science reveals the secret messages encoded into the world's first manmade bacterial genome by the scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute.
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The first synthetic genome is pieced together by scientists, the next-to-last step in creating man-made life.
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Evolutionary experiments on microbes are under way in many laboratories and scientists can observer bacteria adapt over 40,000 generations of living in a beaker.
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Scientists have taken a first step toward making synthetic life by transferring genetic material from one bacterium into another, transforming the second microbe into a copy of the first.
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Scientists have moved closer to being able to use human stem cells to manufacture blood.
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You were expecting poetry, perhaps? The secret messages hidden in J. Craig Venterâs synthetic bacterial genome have now been revealed. They are Dr. Venterâs name, and that of his research institute and co-workers.
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One thousand people around the world are to have their genomes mapped in an effort to understand how genes influence disease.