Most mammals take one of two approaches to survive the winter: they either hibernate, slowing their bodies to a near ...

These offices were intentionally designed to inspire curiosity and show that science can be both fun and entertaining.

The rise of gene editing forces regulators to confront a difficult question: How to protect fair play in the age of genomic medicine.

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome. When scientists sequence a genome, they identify ...

Crispr’s ability to cut genetic code like scissors has just started to turn into medicines. Now, gene editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna wants to build an entire ecosystem to bring these treatments ...

Industrial yeasts are a powerhouse of protein production, used to manufacture vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and other useful compounds. In a new study, MIT chemical engineers have harnessed artificial ...

Your zip code can be more powerful than your genetic code when determining the health outcomes of mother and baby.

To store heat for days, weeks, or months, you need to trap the energy in the bonds of a molecule that can later release heat on demand. The approach to this particular chemistry problem is called ...

When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s ...

In the last ten years, Saudi Arabian healthcare has started to take a more profoundly scientific and unexpectedly personal turn, concentrating on decoding DNA ...

Thanks to advances in genomic and biomarker research, we can now look beneath the surface and identify risk years before symptoms appear.

David Cronenberg’s 1986 film The Fly, adapted from the 1958 B-movie based on George Langelaan's 1957 short story, is 96 minutes of mad science and grotesque, pulsating body transformations. It’s about ...