The rise of gene editing forces regulators to confront a difficult question: How to protect fair play in the age of genomic medicine.

Industrial yeasts are a powerhouse of protein production, used to manufacture vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and other useful compounds. In a new study, MIT chemical engineers have harnessed artificial ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome. When scientists sequence a genome, they identify ...

When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s ...

The latest breakthrough is BadaBing! This is one of the first varieties to resist Septoria leaf spot, the most common disease of tomatoes in the Dakotas. Septoria is a fungus that causes spotting and ...

To store heat for days, weeks, or months, you need to trap the energy in the bonds of a molecule that can later release heat on demand. The approach to this particular chemistry problem is called ...

Key points Genomics delves into the genetic make-up of organisms, which helps us understand how they work.With new ...

Google DeepMind's VP of Research, Pushmeet Kohli, suggests that AI's next major biological breakthrough could be ...

Thanks to advances in genomic and biomarker research, we can now look beneath the surface and identify risk years before symptoms appear.

For the modern technology leader, the quest for peak performance has traditionally been a matter of chemistry, an endless ...