This year's Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize goes to the evolutionary biologist Anna Feller. The SNSF is honouring her for her innovative research into ...

The Duke Reading Center, which specializes in the analysis of retinal images, collaborated with Sina Farsiu, professor in the departments of ophthalmology and biomedical engineering, to play a pivotal ...

Scientists have long believed that a universal genetic code serves as a blueprint for all life on Earth, dictating the structure and function of organisms from the simplest bacteria to complex humans.

Existing oncology therapeutics are either so specific they can target only part of a tumor, or so generalized they kill healthy tissue.

Over the past two decades, synthetic biology has fueled advancements across a broad range of disciplines, including agriculture, bioremediation, biofuel production, and chemical manufacturing. Today, ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

Scientists have successfully created immature human egg-like cells from skin-derived stem cells, a significant step in ...

A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the ...

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefitted one child. Now reseachers plan to launch a clinical trial of the ...

But more broadly, the technology ... a pathogen's genetics have been analyzed; conventional vaccine manufacturing takes ...

The Boston biotech founded by Harvard professor David Sinclair is testing whether cellular reprogramming can turn back the ...

The neurologic disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE has most often been found in people who experienced repeated blows to the head while playing contact sports and there’s now ...