The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both ...

Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of ...

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

Colossal Biosciences expands its de-extinction mission by acquiring Viagen, the world leader in animal cloning and species ...

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

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, ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

So while it was once the subject of high school biology classes and niche pockets of biomedical ... as well as for ...

In a separate 2024 study, researchers also made mice temporarily transparent. The study, published in Science, showed that ...

Sorghum bicolor is a deep-rooted, heat- and drought-tolerant crop that thrives on marginal lands and is increasingly valued ...

Every time a doctor orders a CT scan, or a child receives a lifesaving vaccine, or your phone’s GPS corrects itself by the ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.