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Three-time Olympic gold medalist Kaillie Humphries explains why the Supreme Court upheld Title IX to protect scholarships and ...

Plant researchers from Wales and Uganda have collaborated on a community enterprise project in rural Uganda, becoming the ...

A surprising finding has revealed that the kidneys may control water retention through an additional pathway beyond the one ...

Embedded in the boundary between the inside and outside of each cell are membrane proteins. They act as first responders by ...

Learn how SpudCell, a synthetic cell built from chemical parts, can grow, divide, copy its DNA, and bring life-like behavior ...

To reach that goal, researchers write known biology into the software. They provide the system anatomical structure and ...

Veteran biosensor innovator and technology leader brings decades of experience developing and scaling breakthrough ...

Researchers have developed a new tool that can screen genes involved in human development at unprecedented scale and speed, using it in a proof-of-principle study to reveal new insights into human ...

This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...

A tiny bubble of lipids, enzymes and DNA has done something biologists have chased for years: it carried out a full cycle of ...

Mercer Brugler, chair of USC Beaufort’s Department of Natural Sciences and a marine biology professor, now has a black coral ...