Every time a virus invades a person, it collides with thousands of years of human history. A study led by researchers at the ...

A small population of dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia, do something very unique: They use a marine sponge to cover their ...

Malaria parasites proliferate in an unusual way. Rather than dividing into two daughter cells like human cells, they first amplify their genetic material tenfold, hundredfold or even thousandfold ...

Lab-designed cells could someday be used in medicine, environmental cleanup, or manufacturing. Imagine spraying biosensing cells on a wall to test for hidden mold or swallowing a pill full of cells ...

Biological warfare is illegal. Biological weapons have been illegal since the Biological Weapons Convention took effect in ...

Tech giant Google is seeking government approval to release 32 million mosquitoes into Florida — and the proposal has sparked ...

Zilong Qiu is now being investigated by his university more than a year after his patient likely died from his team's ...

An invasive blight made the American chestnut tree functionally extinct, wiping out 4 billion trees in the early 20th century. Scientists at SUNY ESF have genetically modified the tree to resist the ...

In DepthBorn out of the American tech sector, Preventive and Origin Genomics aim to advance the modification of embryo genomes. This highly controversial and largely banned technique has raised fears ...

In late 2025, surgeons at NYU Langone marked a rare milestone in medicine: they transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a living human. The organ had been grown inside a pig with specific ...