You’d be amazed at how much you can learn from a plant. In a paper published this week in the journal Science, a Michigan State University professor and a colleague discuss why if huma... Read more
New videography techniques have opened up the oceans microscopic ecosystem, revealing it to be both mesmerizingly beautiful and astoundingly complex. Marine biologist Tierney Thys tea... Read more
Calgary scientists say they have revolutionized stem cell production and have found a way to create the super cells without the risk of cancer. A pair of researchers at the University... Read more
It will pick up on any and all toxic materials From man-made toxic chemicals such as industrial by-products to poisons that occur naturally, a water or food supply can be easily conta... Read more
First Proof of Ferroelectricity in Simplest Amino Acid The boundary between electronics and biology is blurring with the first detection by researchers at Department of Energy’s Oak Ri... Read more
FTIP1 is key to how flowering is controlled by light Flowering is the most crucial act that plants undergo, as the fruits of such labor include crops on which the world depends, and seeds fr... Read more
It will soon be possible to design and build household animals to order ONE of the most interesting technological trends of the past few years has been the rise of additive manufacturing. Th... Read more
DIYbio, short for do-it-yourself biology Cathal Garvey’s home laboratory in Cork, Ireland, is filled with makeshift equipment. His incubator for bacteria is an old Styrofoam shipping... Read more
A robotic biologist While some people may have been impressed (or intimidated) by the recent development of a system that automatically raises and analyzes cell cultures, it turns out that a... Read more
Airplanes link populations in an immediate way, which allows the transmission of microbes to occur even more quickly In his new book, award-winning biologist and author Nathan Wolfe examines... Read more
Scientists have known for some time that dogfish sharks, like the one pictured up top, naturally produce a broad-spectrum antibiotic called squalamine in their livers. Now, new research into... Read more
This achievement opens up an exciting new area of research with the potential to bring about a huge breakthrough in regenerative medicine Human colon stem cells have been identified and grow... Read more
The next big thing in medical diagnostics could be minutes particles of rust, iron oxide, coated with the material from which sand is formed, silicon dioxide. These magnetic nanoparticles, a... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The information is likely to have a major impact on livestock breeding The genome of a female Hereford cow has been sequenced, which could be a starting point for major i... Read more
Image by lofaesofa via Flickr It has been possible to successfully cryopreserve semen, blood, embryos, oocytes, stem cells and other thin samples of small clumps of cells for a few decades n... Read more
