Tardigrades make a unique damage suppressor protein that researchers are working to harness for medicine, space, agriculture, ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina have created microscopic soft robots shaped like flowers that can change shape and behavior in response to their surroundings, just like living ...

Scientists discover a byproduct of sucralose that can damage DNA, raising new questions about the safety of artificial ...

Natural spiderwebs are good at capturing DNA from the environment, but artificial webs are cheap and provide better control – ...

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature 1, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina have developed microscopic soft robots shaped like flowers that can change ...

The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories. “It’s ...

The climate crisis is intensifying, leaving devastating consequences in its wake. Communities around the world are grappling ...