As we stand on the precipice of a scientific revolution, researchers are pushing the boundaries of biology by developing ...

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements that use giant viruses—known as jumbo phages—to move between cells. The ...

Current demand for plastics and chemical raw materials is met through large-scale production of ethylene from fossil fuels.

UC Berkeley scientists found that ancient fish evolved human-like hearing in the ocean. A 67-million-year-old fossil shows their advanced Weberian ear developed before moving to freshwater, proving ...

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.