A traffic policeman in Phuket, Thailand found himself battling an unexpected obstacle in early July — a 2.5-meter python that ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

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David Baker’s research team at the Institute for Protein Design has unveiled a new technique for sequestering membrane ...

Researchers have spent decades—and billions of dollars—sequencing animal and crop genomes, but fungi have historically been the forgotten middle child of genomics, only noticed when they're ruining ...

For more than a century, the industrial production of chemicals, fuels, foods, and medicines has relied on wild-type ...