Complex chemical processes are essential for making DNA." This long-held assumption in the field of biotechnology has been overturned by a Korean ...

A new study of people 80 and older with exceptional gaits finds fast walkers have about a 50% lower risk of cognitive decline ...

While this “no pain, no gain” mindset may work in the short-term, science is clear that it doesn’t work long-term. According to a widely cited review in American Psychologist that analyzed 31 ...

Genetic profiles and the gene editor CRISPR threaten to bring a new eugenics of gene selection, but even eugenicist Foster ...

What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...

Their bodies and their genomes were built in the lab from scratch, each molecule specified precisely. According to John Glass ...

All living organisms are known to inherit genes, DNA sequences that contain instructions for producing specific proteins and ...

He provided the first convincing evidence that cancerous tumors develop from a single mutated cell and later helped expose ...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) and Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNX), a global pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of ...

What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...