Over the past two decades, synthetic biology has fueled advancements across a broad range of disciplines, including agriculture, bioremediation, biofuel production, and chemical manufacturing. Today, ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

The U.S. government is divesting from mRNA vaccines, but will other uses of the technology be spared? In a time of ...

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

Humans have long experimented with nature, bending evolution to serve aesthetics, science, and curiosity. Some animals have ...

The winner of a 2025 SITC grant examines mechanisms that may help explain why drugs that work for some forms of lymphoma ...

The conference brought together leading researchers, science administrators, and institutional representatives from India and ...

Advances in cancer immunotherapy from immune checkpoint modulation to adoptive cell transfer of tumour-infiltrating ...

Women are significantly more likely than men to develop Alzheimer's disease. Earlier age at menopause is associated with a ...

Before cells can divide, they first need to replicate all of their chromosomes, so that each of the daughter cells can receive a full set of genetic material. Until now, scientists had believed that ...

Should we genetically modify wild lions? Of course not, might be your instant response. But what if lions were being wiped out by a devastating disease introduced by people? What if the genetic change ...

Anthropic has a new chief technical officer, former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil. Patil started at the company earlier this week, taking over from co-founder Sam McCandlish, who will move to a new role as ...