Genetic circuit engineering is the synthesis of unnatural DNA segments encoding protein or RNA molecules that control each other’s levels. Genetic circuit engineering is the bottom-up ...

The Genetic Evolution Tournament (GET) is a Metaculus human judgment forecasting tournament established to generate forecasts and scenarios pertaining to the use of human genetic and reproductive ...

Resistance to diseases could be introduced into susceptible crops using genetic engineering. Not only can this protect the crop, it can also safeguard farmers' livelihoods. An example is ...

Death, a universal and inevitable phenomenon, serves as a cornerstone in the study of biological systems. Yet, the precise ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

Americans drink too much.Americans consume too much sugar.Both of the above statements are true and supported by data.

Sudden cardiac arrest and death occur among competitive and recreational athletes across the entire spectrum of age, sex, and ...

Genetic vectors are vehicles for delivering foreign DNA into recipient cells. Vectors can replicate autonomously and typically include features to facilitate the manipulation of DNA as well as a ...

Scientists from the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences found forty new freshwater viruses infecting aquatic microorganisms this year. The first one, which they isolated and described ...

Genetic disorders are diseases caused by an abnormal gene, often described as a mutation. When such diseases are inherited (rather than the result of a random mutation), it means they are passed along ...

New research by Johns Hopkins neuroscientists reveals that these hearing-dependent animals employ a remarkable compensation strategy in times of diminished hearing. The work, newly published in ...

Filter feeders are everywhere in the animal world, from tiny crustaceans and certain types of coral and krill, to various mollusks, barnacles, and even massive basking sharks and baleen whales. Now, ...