A team of researchers discover how the stentor, an organism made of a single, gigantic cell, learns without a brain.

Tiny plankton shells used to reconstruct past polar ocean temperatures may contain two different chemical stories, a new ...

J. Craig Venter, the pioneering geneticist who helped map the human genome and launch synthetic biology, has died at 79 in ...

Advances in genetic engineering have enabled researchers to seek ways to program new life. But has synthetic biology actually ...

An engineered E. coli strain survived after one amino acid was designed out of many of its ribosomal proteins—an early test ...

Cancer and aging represent two of the most formidable challenges in biology, yet life across species exhibits extraordinary resilience, defined as the ...

Radiation exposure, whether from natural sources, medical applications, nuclear events, or space environments, presents complex challenges that span ...

On April 26th, at the London Marathon, Sabastian Sawe, a Kenyan athlete, finished in less than two hours; in the 2,515 years ...

The single-celled Stentor coeruleus learns through CaMKII-driven protein modification, mirroring mechanisms found in the human brain.

From Van Meter, Iowa, to Cedar Falls, Matt Kerber’s journey at UNI became more than just earning a degree in biology. It ...

Researchers from Lund University in Sweden collected wild flatworms from Malmo's largest park, Pildammsparken. These ...

Scientific breakthroughs don’t happen in isolation. They are built through mentorship, curiosity and hands-on discovery. In ...