Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...

This month Genome Research publishes a special issue highlighting novel advances in computational biology. In collaboration ...

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

A new university spinout company is hoping to use synthetic biology to transform gene therapy manufacture. SynGenSys, from the University of Sheffield, plans to tap into engineering design principles ...

As researchers work to understand the human genome, many questions remain, including, perhaps, the most fundamental: Just how much of the human experience is determined before we are already born, by ...

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Marvin Collins ’22, a bioengineering student, was balancing their Stanford classes from home in Alabama while also helping bioengineering professor ...

As eukaryotic cells started to form, eukaryotic traits may have emerged in early cells about one billion years before the ...

For decades, psychiatrists have told patients that conditions like schizophrenia and severe depression arise from a tangled ...

NYU biologists identified the unique transcriptional machinery that ants use to choose a single scent receptor out of the 500 ...