The physician-researcher laid the groundwork for genetic cloning and led the US Food and Drug Administration as the country faced the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

The US Food and Drug Administration halts a study by Solid Biosciences after a patient experiences severe side effects following treatment.

A device implanted into mice can modulate brain circuit activity over long periods of time.

Unlike biotech tools adapted from nature, the invention was entirely conceived by humans and represents one of the few proteins made from scratch in the lab.

Executives at a biotech that develops new antibodies argue that Ram Sasisekharan didn’t come up with the structures for at least two experimental therapies that his group has described.

The pharmaceutical industry is looking to machine learning to overcome complex challenges in drug development.

Deep-learning algorithms could help doctors narrow in on the causes of certain medical conditions, say researchers.

The documentary weaves together a hunt for mammoth tusks in the Arctic with scenes from the front lines of synthetic biology.

The country is the second in Africa to permit cannabis cultivation, but months after approval there’s been little uptake by farmers and no scientific proposals.