Synthetic

Facebook has quietly acquired AI.Reverie, a New York-based startup creating synthetic data to train machine learning models.

The human brain, fed on just the calorie input of a modest diet, easily outperforms state-of-the-art supercomputers powered by full-scale station energy…

The increasing prevalence of data science coupled with a recent proliferation of privacy scandals is driving demand for secure and accessible synthetic data.…

Nvidia researchers have created a way to use data created in a virtual environment to train robots to pick up objects in the real world. The convolutional…

Earlier this year, scientists published a paper describing how they pieced together segments of DNA in order to bring back a previously eradicated virus called…

Baxter International received an FDA clearance for a new formulation of its Actifuse synthetic bone graft substitute, now deliverable via a prepackaged syringe…

Spider silk is among the strongest and toughest materials in the natural world, as strong as some steel alloys with a toughness even greater than bulletproof…

Enzymes perform very specific functions and require only little energy — which is why the biocatalysts are also of interest to the chemical industry. In a…

Research groups led by Dr. Jörg Mansfeld of the Biotechnology Center of the TU Dresden (BIOTEC) and Dr. Caren Norden of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular…

MIT Media Lab spinout Amino Labs aims to bring synthetic biology to the world, with an all-in-one mini-lab kit that can be used in labs and classrooms, and…