Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumnus and professor emeritus ...

Study reshapes view of how a common leukemia begins and could point to new therapeutic strategies targeting a common weakness.

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...

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 ...

In a separate 2024 study, researchers also made mice temporarily transparent. The study, published in Science, showed that ...

Sorghum bicolor is a deep-rooted, heat- and drought-tolerant crop that thrives on marginal lands and is increasingly valued ...

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.

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

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

A speech attributed to Bill Gates, circulating under the title 'Seeds and Code', has sparked global controversy over claims ...