From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

Proponents of the use of synthetic biology say it could bring some species back from the brink of extinction and help fight ...

Why Some People Are Born to Be Afraid Scientists are discovering that our tendency to develop certain phobias might be ...

Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change.

Molecular biologists have long believed that the beginning of a gene launched the process of transcription—the process by ...

The world is still in its seventh cholera pandemic, which has been surging since 2021, and case rates in various countries continue to be high. The disease is usually caused when water or food ...

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter ...

When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.

Duke’s department of biology recently decided to press pause on one of its gateway courses, Biology 203, Molecular Biology, Genetics and Evolution, reportedly due to negative student feedback on the ...