When George Church, PhD, and co-founders established Colossal Biosciences, they envisioned applying their advancements in CRISPR gene editing to the loss of biodiversity, species preservation, and ...
For more than a decade, in an unassuming laboratory culture in the Czech Republic, a miniature universe quietly awaited its ...
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Researchers believe they discovered a new type of life form living in the human body that were previously misidentified as viruses. According to a new study from bioRxiv that has ...
In eukaryotic cells, which are found in complex organisms including humans, little membrane-bound organelles carry out various functions. It's been suggested that these organelles, which all have ...
Two research groups have discovered that rare forms of a gene involved in lipid formation might reduce the risk of some heart attacks in people who inherit one of those rare forms. The gene is ...
Colossal Bio, a biotech trying to resurrect the woolly mammoth, just spun out its first company. The new company, Form Bio, sells manufacturing software to life sciences companies. Insider got the ...
Fusion oncoproteins arise when a gene fuses with another gene and acquires new abilities. Such abilities can include the ...
Electron micrographs of clusters of JCVI-Syn 3.0 cells magnified about 15,000 times, Credit: Tom Deerinck and Mark Ellisman, of the National Center for Imaging and Microscopy Research at the ...
The grand ideas of synthetic biology — like bringing back the woolly mammoth — seem very far away. But oftentimes I find that ideas that seem futuristic are already around us, like having a cochlear ...
When College of William and Mary sophomore Jillian Walton began her introductory biology lab course this past fall, she thought that she’d be learning a lot about conducting research. But she didn’t ...
Students pursuing the Bachelor of Arts degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO) at CU Boulder study both ecology and evolutionary biology. Ecology seeks to understand the processes that ...