The line between human and machine is eroding: We have humanoid robots that express emotions, “living” robots that self-replicate, and implants that enable people to control prosthetics with their ...

A paper from the lab of Jianping Fu, Ph.D. of the University of Michigan Medical School uses artificial intelligence to uncover hidden features of the developing embryo.

If Stephen Quake gets his way, biologists in the future will spend a lot less time wielding pipettes. “Our goal,” he says, “is to create computational tools so that cell biology goes from being 90% ...

Low nitrogen availability is the number one limitation to plant growth in most ecosystems. Plants in the bean family and other closely related families evolved a symbiotic relationship with bacteria ...