Tiny, quivering spheres designed to feed and multiply raise prospect of artificial organisms to make drugs, food and fuel ...
Scientists claim they have developed world’s first man-made cell that can eat and grow - It was built from non-living ...
A new ultrasensitive thermal sensor can track metabolic heat from small bacterial populations, offering potential ...
Scientists have engineered a nanoscale switch using DNA "origami." Inspired by macroscale mechanical switches, the device achieves long-term functionality without the continuous forcing mechanism that ...
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed what they describe as the world’s ...
Newborn mice neurons can snap both DNA strands to migrate, then repair the breaks within a day. The process may be a normal ...
Amid the peatlands of northern Sweden, billions of microbes are quietly rewriting their genetic playbooks—and doing so far more often than scientists realized.
Mary-Dell Chilton, Ph.D., an American pioneer in plant sciences known as the “Queen of the Agrobacterium,” died on June 24, ...
RNA interference is a natural mechanism for living cells to control whether specific genes are being used or not.