Silicon chips have powered computing for half a century. Increasingly, they are also becoming platforms to read and ...

DNA synthesis is vital to several processes in biopharmaceutical innovation, including the development of gene therapies, CRISPR gene editing, antisense oligonucleotides and RNA therapies. The need ...

Researchers at Harvard University have developed a semiconductor chip that can synthesize 64 different ...

DNA is the raw material of modern medicine yet is the only part of drug development not accessible at the lab bench. DNA synthesis, the first step in most biological workflows including gene synthesis ...

Oligonucleotides are advancing as essential materials for the development of new therapeutics, artificial genes, or in storage of information applications. Hitherto, our capacity to write (i.e., ...

From synthetic biology and gene therapy to data storage and biofuel production, the demand for synthetic DNA is rising. (1) Chemicals remove the 5’-hydroxyl protecting group. The nucleosides are rich ...

Translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) is a specialised branch of the DNA damage tolerance pathway that enables eukaryotic cells to replicate past lesions that would otherwise stall the replication machinery ...

- The next frontier in oligonucleotide synthesis is the direct synthesis of gene-length sequences. - Ansa synthesized a 1005 base long oligonucleotide with industry-leading accuracy. - Ansa will be ...

Genetic medicines such as cell and gene therapies and mRNA vaccines offer extraordinary promise for treating a variety of diseases, including genetic disorders, cancer, and autoimmune diseases. These ...

Support for screening does not depend on any one view of AI; the biosecurity case has long been recognized by scientists and governments.

AI leaders are worried that powerful AI models could be used to design highly contagious viruses that could be ordered online ...