Artificial biology is working toward creating a genuinely new organism. Researchers are designing and building proteins that can fold and mimic the chemical processes that sustain life. Now they have ...

Researchers design proteins from scratch with predictable structures. You have full access to this article via your institution. Proteins are an enormous molecular achievement: chains of amino acids ...

A dawning field of research, artificial biology, is working toward creating a genuinely new organism. At Princeton, chemistry professor Michael Hecht and the researchers in his lab are designing and ...