Rare genetic disorders are typically caused by a variant in a single gene. It is estimated that there are over 7000 such conditions, meaning that although individually rare, they are collectively ...

The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both ...

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of ...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs ...

This article is part of a larger project by The Michigan Daily examining University of Michigan research trends by analyzing academic paper citations. The Daily spoke with Michael Boehnke, Richard G.

This may be about as wildly entertaining, disruptive and philosophically profound as legitimate scientific research gets. Michael Levin's work in cellular intelligence, bioelectrical communication and ...

Chloroplasts—the "light power plants" of plant cells—are increasingly the focus of synthetic biology. These organelles house ...

What started as a love for biology in a high school classroom in Mason, Ohio has led Nour Sayed to pursue her doctorate at Miami. Sayed graduated with a BA in Biology from Miami last August, but ...

Duke’s department of biology recently decided to press pause on one of its gateway courses, Biology 203, Molecular Biology, Genetics and Evolution, reportedly due to negative student feedback on the ...