Dried plant specimens reveal the origin of an insect pest that has spread throughout Europe.
Dried plant specimens reveal the origin of an insect pest that has spread throughout Europe.
From iPhone apps to cloud computing, everyday digital technologies are helping advance drug discovery, conduct clinical trials, and improve medical care.
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.
A German ethics council weighs in on the discussion about the use of human-animal chimeras in research.
Researchers find that sampling DNA from the soil can be an effective way to determine how many individuals of a variety of species inhabit a particular area.
A female bulldog with testicles but no SRY gene considered scientific anomaly.
This year’s winners research topics ranging from stem cell regulation to brain damage from football injuries.
Careful oversight is required to ensure that chimeras and transgenic animals continue to serve as powerful biomedical research tools.