For decades, lab-made antibodies have been used to support patients fighting specific diseases. These treatments have become ...

Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...

Liverpool researchers' discovery of collagen in fossilized bones could provide new insights into dinosaurs. For years, ...

Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...

Synthetic cells that look just like natural cells but are chemically reversed could outcompete other living organisms − with ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism - a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon - using a cellular platform that they developed ...

From meatless meatballs to cell-cultured meat, Margaret Sova McCabe, Jennie Popp and Curt Rom examine food culture, law and the future of protein.

Using a new method to study how carbohydrates modify proteins, scientists have discovered that gut bacteria can alter molecular signatures in the brain.

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...