Using genes borrowed from bacteria, researchers have demonstrated fish and flies can be engineered to break down methylmercury and remove it from their bodies as a less harmful gas, offering new ways ...

Craig Zondag, the Field Coordinator and Biologist for the Lemon Fair Insect Control District, will give a presentation titled “Mosquitos: The Good and the Bad,” on Thursday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. He will ...

The allergy, known as alpha-gal syndrome, affects hundreds of thousands of Americans and is particularly prevalent in the southeastern United States.

Xinning Zhang and Ashley Maloney discovered that a geology technique shows promise in detecting cancer-like cells. If their ...

Exozymes are advanced enzymes engineered using AI to thrive in a bioreactor outside of living cells. Exozymes can replace ...

Your genes play a major role in determining your height, hair and eye color, and skin tone, but they don't tell the entire ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in 2022, around 608,000 people died from malaria, a ...

Doug Kellogg, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded $2.95 million from ...

It’s important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the timescale of a fast-moving field like synthetic biology, a decade is a very long ...

Consolidating power can result in short-term benefits but the long-term costs can't be ignored. Smart leaders with strive for ...

With a $1 million grant, the University of Iowa’s Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing looks toward expanding the ...