The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered the recall of several batches of a brand of antibiotics used to treat ...

Twenty-year veteran Edwin Buyten, who has spent 15 years within the West Hawai‘i Vice section as an officer, detective and lieutenant, became the leader of the department’s unified drug enforcement on ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing more of a specific protein, even proteins that would normally destroy them, ...

Synthetic cells that look just like natural cells but are chemically reversed could outcompete other living organisms − with ...

When the synthetic substance salvia was made illegal in August, local law enforcement officials said they expected imitation marijuana – such as “K2” and “Spice” – would take its place as the new ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...