The history of synthetic chemistry offers a possible roadmap for the development and impact of synthetic biology, a nascent field in which the goal is to build novel biological systems.

Synthetic biology is the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes. A near-infrared ...

Although American scientists had been busy studying hormones in the 1930s and 1940s, Margaret sanger's dream of a pill for birth control improbably came to fruition because of the discovery of a ...