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

Movies have always played up the mad scientist trope, but real-life labs have carried out experiments that make fiction look ...

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

The field of fish conservation is grappling with the complex challenges posed by human-modified landscapes. As habitats undergo rapid transformation due to ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in ...

Tuo Gear and Veil Camo have partnered up to bring together some of the most advanced ideas in concealment.

Researchers set a new world record for the fastest DNA sequencing, completing a whole genome in under four hours—a ...

How they’re doing it: The new company, called Preventive, is being formed to research so-called “heritable genome editing,” ...

A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the ...

Commensal microbes—especially those in the gut, skin, and oral cavity—are rapidly becoming programmable living therapeutics.

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

Now, research from Northwestern Engineering’s Vadim Backman reveals a second ... “Rather than a predetermined script based on fixed genetic instruction sets, we humans are living, breathing ...