Plant a seed and, if the conditions are right, the seed grows. The process seems simple enough at first glance and is something many of us may feel like we learned in elementary school.

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

Interestingly, the closest living algal relatives of land plants—the Zygnematophyceae—are much simpler in structure, ...

Advances in genome editing are transforming the treatment for rare genetic diseases, as seen in the case of seven-month-old ...

The names of 16 people who are presumed dead in the massive blast at a Tennessee explosives plant last week have been released. Their remains have not been identified, as authorities continue search ...

The blast that killed 16 people has left area residents reeling, including Sheriff Chris Davis of Humphreys County, who has fought back tears in his public briefings. By Emily Cochrane Reporting from ...

General Motors Co. is scrapping plans for a factory in Detroit as part of a broader decision to end development of hydrogen fuel cells for everyday drivers, the automaker said Friday. Salaried workers ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a protein that acts like a traffic controller for DNA, preventing damage during cell division—a discovery that could lead to new cancer therapies, according to ...

FREEPORT, Texas — A fire that broke out at the Dow chemical plant in Freeport is now contained and the investigation into what started it begins. It happened at the plant on Brazosport Boulevard near ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Women in their 60s and 70s could theoretically one day give birth to genetically related children, according to scientists pioneering a breakthrough technique that converts DNA from skin cells into ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have achieved a scientific first: transforming human skin cells into eggs that can be fertilized in the lab. Their study, published Tuesday in Nature ...