Designing genomes from scratch will be the next revolution in biology.
Designing genomes from scratch will be the next revolution in biology.
By extending its reach beyond science, the field of omics will change the way we live our lives.
An early advocate of the sequencing of the human genome reflects on his own predictions from 1986.
Large-scale data collection and analysis have fundamentally altered the process and mind-set of biological research.
Considered a renegade by his peers, Nobel Prize-winner Eric Kandel used a simple model to probe the neural circuitry of memory.
Dried plant specimens reveal the origin of an insect pest that has spread throughout Europe.
Eric Kandel, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on signal transduction in the nervous system, chats about the ever-changing field of neuroscience, funding, his students, and what he hopes science will accomplish.
Learn about the field’s first genetic circuits and read forecasts by George M. Church and J. Craig Venter of a future where man-made organisms pump out novel fuels, drugs, and therapies.
A handful of life science researchers will take home the United States' top science honor.