When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully synthetic genome, it marked a turning point in how scientists think about life.
An engineered E. coli strain survived after one amino acid was designed out of many of its ribosomal proteins—an early test ...
An Indian-origin researcher has led the development of a 3D platform where living neurons interact with embedded electronics.
A UK biotech company has launched what it describes as a world‑first platform of lab‑grown human muscle designed to give drug ...
Years before he conducted the research that would earn him a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, Shinya Yamanaka, MD, ...
Colossal Biosciences’ ’de-extinction’ programme aims to revive species such as the dire wolf, the woolly mammoth and the dodo ...
Eighteen national symposia, held across 14 cities where leaders representing academic medicine, public health, ...
The yaks were delivered naturally and without assistance using technology that cuts breeding cycles from 20 years to under ...
What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial ...
Pre-law students are not at fault for avoiding STEM courses — they are simply responding to the incentives in front of them.
Pioneering scientist J. Craig Venter has died at 79. His "whole genome shotgun method" helped genome sequencing become faster ...
Scientists shared transcripts with The Times in which chatbots described how to assemble deadly pathogens and unleash them in public spaces.