Creating new scientific models of plankton is "critical" to understanding the scale of global climate change, a new paper ...

A Ph.D. student in biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has built a software program ...

In this interview, Professor James J. Collins, founder of the field of Synthetic Biology, discusses his journey to founding ...

Rohit Kadam turns molecular research into scalable diagnostics that serve frontline clinics, not just publications.

If you’re one of the folks who looks forward to pumpkins every fall, the long summer wait can be tough. For farmers, the ...

A study showed that sex-based hierarchies in primates are more fluid than has been assumed, raising questions about the ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

Researchers looking into the subject of artificial intelligence have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of their colleagues are ...

Researchers from several institutions in Brazil developed an enhanced protocol for extracting and analyzing proteins from human skin, combining chemical and mechanical lysis, SP3 sample preparation, ...

The downstream consequences of religion, politics and war can have far-reaching effects on the environment and on the evolutionary processes affecting ...

A new study from Japanese researchers has found that in rats, the 2D:4D ratio (essentially the equivalent of your index and ring fingers) can accurately predict both sexual activity and mating ...

Recent research on MCL-1, a critical protein that is an attractive target for cancer drug development, helps explain why some ...