The Kennewick Man, discovered nearly 10 years ago on a bank of the Columbia River near Kennewick,...

With high-throughput analysis tools and bioinformatics on the rise, studying microbes has become more accessible to many...

Former employees of Affymetrix tried to scuttle a pending acquisition by life-science technology firm Thermo Fisher Scientific....

For years, researchers have recreated the microscopic hair-like pillars on gecko feet that, through atomic forces known...

Using transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), researchers at Recombinetics, a St. Paul, Minnesota–based biotech company that uses...

Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today (May 17) released a study examining...

At the end of summer 2006, scientists at NASA, the Department of Defense, the US Department of Agriculture,...

In early June 2011, at a bioinformatics conference outside of Cambridge, U.K., University of British Columbia epidemiologist...

In the mid-1990s, researchers began commercializing plants that expressed toxin proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)....

Between 1955 and 1969, the Global Malaria Eradication Program, overseen by the World Health Organization (WHO), eliminated...