Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered the origin of a curious duplication that gives plants ...

Do you use biotechnology on a daily basis? Your first reaction might be to say no. But what many people don’t realize is that ...

One major challenge in protein engineering is the number of mutations that need to be generated and screened. This can take anywhere from 3 to 6 months. STAR dramatically accelerates this process. By ...

Lip problems, simply, have been impossible to treat. Dr. Martin Egen at Bern University Hospital "just changed that." ...

Genes contain instructions for making proteins, and a central dogma of biology is that this information flows from DNA to RNA ...

Chinese scientists have found abiotic organic compounds in the ocean crust, shedding light on deep-sea carbon cycles and life ...

A pair of biologists at the University of Toronto has found that vampire bats are able to burn amino acids as a fuel source similarly to blood-sucking insects. In their study published in the journal ...

the most complex and intricate molecular machine in human biology. The vast majority of human genes -- more than nine in ten ...

Improved sensitivity in proteomics analysis has numerous benefits including bringing down the sample requirements for ...

Relying less on animal testing for new drugs and more on lab-made “organoids” designed to mimic the functions of human organs sounds like the stuff of science fiction but could lead to medical ...

Making wood from cultured cells, without growing a tree: that's the idea behind startup New Dawn Bio. The company has been ...

A team of molecular biologists and other medical specialists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, working with a large number of international partners, reports evidence that a synthetic ...