The promise of viruses as biotech tools will help molecular biology fulfill its true potential.
The promise of viruses as biotech tools will help molecular biology fulfill its true potential.
Exploiting the unique properties of living systems makes synthetic biologists better engineers.
Investing more federal dollars in life science research may save the US economy.
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.
History repeats itself, and so do trends in research funding.
The publication I launched a quarter century ago has come further than anyone ever expected.
In an essay entitled "Nurture, Nature, and the Stress That is Life," neurobiologists Darlene Francis and Daniela Kaufer envision a future where science moves past the nature vs. nurture debate in considering differences in human behavioral responses to stress.
Large-scale data collection and analysis have fundamentally altered the process and mind-set of biological research.