The Polymerase Chain Reaction was developed in 1983, and since that time it's become one of the most commonly-used techniques in labs across the world. The ability to amplify one region of DNA using ...

A North Texas teacher uses taste-altering tea to help students understand cell communication in AP biology at West Mesquite ...

Conservation biology is considered by some to be a “crisis discipline.” Decisions within the field must often be made quickly, sometimes without enough time to gather all of the data one would ideally ...

Two Harvard University researchers who applied biological science to the study of labor unions paint a bleak picture of the future of unions. In “A Biological Model of Unions,” by Michael Kremer and ...

In contrast, Apple’s hubris is now starting to cut it right at its roots. Steve Job’s brainchild, which rose to become the (only) winner in the space, bringing Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) ...

A school biology lesson is rarely life-changing. But for one US student – and the father she never knew – a class on genetics changed their lives for ever. Belfast dad Emmanuel Cullen has spoken of ...

-- So what's the germiest, grossest, dirtiest place in your school? If you said the fifth-grade boys' bathroom, you'd be wrong. Researchers from the University of Arizona took samples from classrooms ...

A BOY stabbed a classmate four times with a scalpel after a row in a biology lesson at one of Scotland’s biggest secondary schools. The 16-year-old attacked his then 15-year-old victim near the school ...

A biology teacher wished to demonstrate to his students the harmful effects of alcohol on living organisms. For his experiment, he showed them a beaker with pond water in which there was a thriving ...

JUDY: "Blimey, I nearly sat on my microphone - I dread to think where it would have gone." ...