Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have built a computer simulation that tracks the entire life cycle ...

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A new review study explains that extremophiles have revolutionized medicine, and are invaluable allies in the fight against climate change.

Quantum effects are no longer confined to ultra-cold chips and vacuum chambers. For the first time, researchers are deliberately engineering living cells so that they behave like quantum bits, hinting ...

A molecular biologist at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences may have found a new "rule of biology." A rule of biology, sometimes called a biological law, describes a recognized ...

Bdelloid rotifers shrug off radiation doses that would obliterate human cells. Here’s how their resilience reveals deep ...

How can the field of synthetic biology help improve engineered living materials (ELMs)? This is what a recent study published in ACS Synthetic Biology hopes to address as a team of researchers led by ...

Everything in life is about sex and money. And now that I have your attention, let me explain. That phrase was one that I often used when presenting key concepts to my biology and marine science ...

For the first time, a team of scientists has created a synthetic single-celled organism that can divide and grow like a regular living cell. This breakthrough could lead to designer cells that can ...