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.

With millions of Americans having undergone LASIK vision correction in the past three decades, a growing number are now approaching the age where cataract surgery becomes a consideration. Porter ...

Professor David Williams, a New Zealander working on gene therapy at UCLA, has warned that the Bill is “unfair to farmers” and based on false assumptions about precision and safety. He points to ...

The neurologic disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE has most often been found in people who experienced repeated blows to the head while playing contact sports and there’s now ...

Transferring one species to another is how to create genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. This creates something not ...

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

There has been an endless “war” between pathogen organisms armed with the ability to establish new, genetically based ...

The federal government has been—and must remain—a critical partner in foundational technological innovation and research ...

The Oak Lawn location is marketing a new special: “redfish oyster.” Redfish and oyster, formerly two different species of animal, have been brought together into one terrifying new hybrid animal. The ...