During the semester, students analyzed genomes sequenced from marine samples collected in Key West, Florida—doing hands-on ...

Lab work isn't the only way to be at the forefront of scientific discovery. Designing and conducting experiments in a wet lab may seem like every scientist's dream. However, the reality of working at ...

To combat viruses, bacteria and other pathogens, synthetic biology offers new technological approaches whose performance is being validated in experiments. Researchers applied data integration and ...

This year, Washington iGEM elected to design an anti-virulence therapy against Exotoxin A, a toxin secreted by Pseudomonas ...

Serbia’s BIO4 Campus reflects the convergence biosciences, AI, and IT to power innovation and global collaboration.

We resent it when preliminary or ancillary work occupies so much of our attention that our real work, or what we consider to be our real work, recedes. No less a figure than Enrico Fermi, when ...

In the hunt for new therapeutics for cancer and infectious diseases, lasso peptides prove to be a catch. Their knot-like ...

When red devil spiders ventured down the Atlantic and arrived on the Canary Islands, their genome dramatically shrank and ...

Over a few million years, the spider Dysdera tilosensis—a species endemic to the Canary Islands—has reduced the size of its ...