Searching for life beyond our teeming planet has led to some innovative collaborative approaches to generating knowledge right here at home.
Searching for life beyond our teeming planet has led to some innovative collaborative approaches to generating knowledge right here at home.
2012 saw the birth of a handful of non-invasive genetic prenatal tests, but the young industry faces growing pains as legal and ethical questions loom.
After decades of political wrangling, the European Union is poised to introduce a single patent system to reduce red tape and application costs for researchers and companies.
Long-term exposure to antibiotics from agricultural run off may encourage the evolution of soil bacteria that break down and consume the antibacterial agents.
As the United States edges ever closer to the dreaded fiscal cliff, the pharmaceutical industry approaches a precipice of its own.
The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
In the largest microbial eukaryote genetic sequencing effort ever attempted, researchers are investigating the transcriptomes of 700 marine algae species.
Researchers uncover a diverse microbial community living beneath 27 meters of ice in Antarctica’s Lake Vida.
Three patents on transgenic apes in the European Union will be challenged by animal rights activists.
A new study reveals a large mix of microbes in most human belly buttons.