A decade’s worth of engineering-infused biology
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.
A new study raises further doubts about the ability of proteins called sirtuins to slow aging, but the controversy remains unsettled.
Careful oversight is required to ensure that chimeras and transgenic animals continue to serve as powerful biomedical research tools.
A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in genomics, genetics and related areas, from Faculty of 1000