Yonsei University researchers have developed a system for combining the benefits of planar array platforms with those of ...

Every fall, millions of Americans get their annual flu shots—and while they are at it, they now also get their annual Covid-19 boosters. Already, these shots seem routine; it is easy to forget that ...

Synthetic biology is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles from biology, engineering, and computer science to design and construct new biological systems or redesign existing ones. It ...

The vast majority of genes in the yeast genome are non-essential suggesting significant functional redundancy. In the December 14 Science, Amy Tong and colleagues describe an approach for ...

The code of life is simple. Four genetic letters arranged in triplets—called codons—encode amino acids. These are the building blocks of proteins, the machinery that powers life. But the genetic code ...

Scientists at the Earlham Institute in Norwich, U.K., say they have been able to turn tobacco plants into solar-powered factories for moth sex pheromones. In addition, they’ve shown how the production ...