Profluent has raised $106 million to scale up use of its AI models for biology in drug development and agriculture.

The aerospace and electronics industries have long applied computational models to not only design airplanes and chips, but also to simulate and optimize their performance. There have, until recently, ...

Immunology has undergone a revolution thanks to vaccinations. Systems immunology integrates various experimental and computational approaches to comprehend the intricate interactions between the ...

In the early days of the semiconductor industry, integrated circuits were designed by one or two engineers with slide-rules, hand-drawn on paper, and then given to a lithographer to print onto silicon ...

Synthetic biology is the next generation of genomics, bringing a more engineered, design-driven approach to the development of therapeutics and diagnostics. As synthetic biology matures, scientists ...

Gingko Bioworks launched their new laboratory last month—an automated “factory” that mass-produces genetically modified organisms. The organism company’s tagline is “Biology By Design,” and it aims to ...

­­­­­In recent months ChatGPT and other AI chatbots with uncanny abilities to respond to prompts with fluid, human-like writing have unleashed torrents of angst flowing from different quarters of ...

The Synthetic Aesthetics seek participants for a research project on synthetic biology, design, and aesthetics. The project will provide funding to bring together scientists and engineers working in ...

“The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production,” says Neri Oxman, an architect, designer, and director of the Mediated Matter research group within the MIT ...

A Brown University biologist says the best way to communicate evolution in a religious America is to acknowledge that there is indeed a "design" in living things. He says scientists should embrace the ...