Enzyme engineering is key to the future of human health. The Design2Data program teaches students to solve problems in the food, energy and health industries.

Tuesday morning, officials broke ground for the new Morris Arboretum and Gardens Plant Science Lab in Chestnut Hill.

African researchers are using Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies to advance studies of genetics, biomedicine, developmental biology, toxicology and more.

Over the past several years, scientists have repeatedly demonstrated that the cells of various organisms can be repurposed into biological robots, representing stunning advancements in the field of ...

CRISPR, the gene-editing technology, has been one of the major breakthroughs in biology in the last two decades. And while ...

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Researchers have introduced an algorithm based on deep learning that can predict the effects of rare genetic variants. The method allows persons with high risk of disease to be distinguished more ...

Some types of “walking” fish called sea robins can use their taste bud-covered legs to detect prey buried beneath the sandy covering of the seafloor.

Two studies in Current Biology provide the most comprehensive understanding to date on how sea robins use their legs, what ...

Fred Hutch Cancer Center researchers receive $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study the fundamental ...

Professor Julius Lucks’s device leverages advances in in vitro synthetic biology to diagnose disease in crops before the ...

With a catfish-shaped body and face, sea robins come in a wide range of colors: Red-brown and orange to subtler hues of ...