Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

Many people insist cilantro tastes like soap, yet others pile it onto tacos without hesitation. The disagreement shows up at ...

As the Arctic warms and sea ice disappears, polar bears are being pushed into conditions they have never faced before. Their ...

Students at Licking Heights High School are partnering with Amgen to solve mysteries using research-grade technology. Through ...

Overharvesting has raised conservation concerns for a widely foraged plant, but researchers say that better genetic insights could support more effective protection efforts. For years, the wild ramp ...

In a landmark effort to understand how the physical structure of our DNA influences human biology, Northwestern investigators and the 4D Nucleome Project have unveiled the most detailed maps to date ...

Pipettes? Check. Centrifuges? Check. Microplates? Check. Gloves? Check. Salmon sperm DNA? Check. Wait what? There are a ...

TheFly reported on December 15 that Barclays raised its price target for TWST from $37 to $39 while maintaining an Overweight ...

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...

For decades, biologists assumed a single ‘turtle tick’ crawled across much of Asia. Now detailed DNA and microscope work show ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

Gene editing has rapidly evolved into a transformative class of technologies that allow scientists to precisely insert, ...