Researchers have gained new insights into the genetic basis of rye reproduction. They have demonstrated how plants recombine ...

Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have described a new way to produce large amounts of xanthommatin, a natural pigment, in a bacterium for the first time. Xanthommatin ...

Over the past two decades, synthetic biology has fueled advancements across a broad range of disciplines, including agriculture, bioremediation, biofuel production, and chemical manufacturing. Today, ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

Research from UChicago dissects how a single genetic switch helps butterflies mimic wing patterns of other species to protect ...

Transferring one species to another is how to create genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. This creates something not ...

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

There has been an endless “war” between pathogen organisms armed with the ability to establish new, genetically based ...

The federal government has been—and must remain—a critical partner in foundational technological innovation and research ...

The Oak Lawn location is marketing a new special: “redfish oyster.” Redfish and oyster, formerly two different species of animal, have been brought together into one terrifying new hybrid animal. The ...