Nanoparticles are widely used in medicine to deliver drugs, genes or imaging agents to specific parts of the body. Once a ...

Modern genetic research is “pushing the boundaries of what’s possible” by bringing extinct animals back to life, but could it ...

Unlike computer code that sits on a device and does what it's told, lab-engineered genes can multiply on their own. While ...

Silver nanoparticles provide a more efficient way to cut and assemble DNA, improving recovery rates and boosting DNA joining ...

Thomas Mulligan investigates the groundbreaking scientific efforts to bring back lost creatures and reshape our planet's ...

The government is teaming up with Colossal Biosciences, a private company that claims to have revived extinct dire wolves, to ...

While many of life's mysteries remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living organism, including energy use, reproduction, growth and development. While these ...

A joint research team has developed an automated design technology that enables the creation of DNA origami structures that ...

University of Minnesota researchers created SpudCell, the first bottom-up synthetic cell that feeds, grows, replicates DNA and divides.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed what they describe as the world’s ...

From simple chemicals to a cell-like system that grows and reproduces, researchers have crossed a major milestone. The ...

Researchers have spent decades—and billions of dollars—sequencing animal and crop genomes, but fungi have historically been the forgotten middle child of genomics, only noticed when they're ruining ...