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South Dakota State University researcher Dr. Ananda Nanjundaswamy is developing natural, microbe-based pigments to replace synthetic food dyes like Red No. 3, which the FDA plans to ban by 2027.

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An AI wrote an entire microbial genome. The Evo2 model was trained on 9 trillion DNA letters much as other AIs train on ...

A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden rice, which is genetically engineered to provide vitamin A, to advances ...

A field study in western Kenya found that a genetically engineered microbial fertilizer significantly increased maize yields, ...

After tracking biosynthetic gene clusters in 86 adults for a year, researchers found that stable gene groups predict which donor microbes persist after fecal microbiota transplantation.

Biology — the science of life, living things and the processes that keep us all running — links up in essential ways with many other sciences, such as chemistry, physics and mathematics, which help us ...