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.
Fifteen to 47-million-year-old fossil beetles have retained their structural colors almost intact.
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.
Scientists have cloned a castrated male hog that survived for more than a month buried in the rubble after a massive 2008 earthquake in China.
A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research