In my first semester of graduate school at Tufts University, I sat across from a young professor as he pitched me on joining his lab to work on genetic code expansion (GCE). Even though I'd just ...

Tiny, quivering spheres designed to feed and multiply raise prospect of artificial organisms to make drugs, food and fuel Researchers claim they are closer to creating life from scratch after building ...

With advancing age, clock-like DNA-methylation changes occur across the genome. Whether these changes are passenger events or drive pathology remains to be determined. Here we report a novel ...

You may have noticed that acne sometimes runs in families. While there’s no specific acne gene, genetics have been shown to play a role. In this article, we’ll look at how acne may be passed from ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell. This breakthrough in synthetic biology could usher in an era of ...