Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...

In the largest genetic analysis of polycystic ovary syndrome to date, scientists have identified new variants linked to the ...

The grantmaking organization Open Philanthropy has awarded funding for a University of California San Diego technology ...

While some practices remain controversial or speculative, biohackers are united by a shared curiosity: how can we engineer ...

Native to the arctic waters of the northern hemisphere, the Bowhead whale can live for centuries, and now scientists think ...

The most dangerous animal in the world just got easier to study-and perhaps defeat one day.

Chloroplasts—the "light power plants" of plant cells—are increasingly the focus of synthetic biology. These organelles house ...

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...

Scientists have successfully created immature human egg-like cells from skin-derived stem cells, a significant step in ...

Existing oncology therapeutics are either so specific they can target only part of a tumor, or so generalized they kill healthy tissue.

Over the past two decades, synthetic biology has fueled advancements across a broad range of disciplines, including agriculture, bioremediation, biofuel production, and chemical manufacturing. Today, ...

But more broadly, the technology ... a pathogen's genetics have been analyzed; conventional vaccine manufacturing takes ...