Recently, many California residents were disturbed to learn that a small, privately-operated bio lab in the Central Valley town of Reedley was shut down by Fresno County Department of Public Health ...

On Thursday Congress held the first of a series of planned hearings on the recent — and some might say reckless — proliferation of high-security bio-laboratories in the U.S. The questions at hand: How ...

This year, Victor R. Ambros and Harvard professor Gary B. Ruvkun won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering microRNA. With this year’s prize, they join 10 other Nobel laureates who ...