Microbiologists report 'a major advance' in the quest to develop electrically conductive protein nanowires in the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens for use as chemical and biological sensors. In the ...

The synthesis of increasingly complex unnatural networks embedded in living matter is an emerging theme in synthetic biology. Synthetic networks have allowed the creation of organisms endowed with ...

Cohesin contributes to intrachromosomal loops that regulate metazoan gene expression by constraining interactions between promoter and enhancer elements. These structures can be subject to regulation ...