This radical new method could preserve our entire knowledge base for thousands of years, in a storage medium the size of a ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A new hybrid vehicle is under development. Its performance isn’t measured by the distance it travels, but rather the delivery of its cargo: vaccines that contain genetically engineered ...

A team of researchers have developed an easy-to-use colorimetric assay for the detection of food contaminated with salmonella. The assay is based on a novel nucleic acid probe that is cleaved by an ...

A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how ...

A group of scientists hopes to make a hybrid of alligator and catfish. As per a press release, they inserted the alligator gene called cathelicidin to catfish, an antimicrobial protein believed to ...

Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It ...