The high-tech double-barrel nanopipette, developed by University of Leeds scientists, and applied to the global medical challenge of cancer, has - for the first...
IntroductionBiologists have often wondered what would happen if they could rewind the tape of life’s history and let evolution play out all over again....
The latest Palworld update has spawned another contentious change to the game: a bug to do with breeding Pals that's preventing amateur Pal biologists...
IntroductionIn Cassandra Extavour’s office at Harvard University hangs a placard with a painted rainbow flag and a friendly invitation.
“You are welcome here,” it reads.
“I...
IntroductionThe discovery during the Human Genome Project in the early 2000s that we humans have only about 20,000 protein-coding genes — about as many...
Synthetic biology is already rewriting life.In late 2023, scientists revealed yeast cells with half their genetic blueprint replaced by artificial DNA. It was a...
IntroductionAging can seem like an unregulated process: As time marches along, our cells and bodies inevitably accumulate dings and dents that cause dysfunctions, failures...
IntroductionJames Stroud had a problem. The evolutionary biologist had spent several years studying lizards on a small island in Miami. These Anolis lizards had...
