Researchers at Yale have achieved a major breakthrough in synthetic biology. They have rewritten the genetic code of an organism, opening up unprecedented possibilities for medicine and industry. This ...

In the desert areas of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, research work has revealed unusual structures that are probably due to the activity of an unknown microbiological life form. Unusually small ...

To compare all the genes of one organism to those of another organism, we must first know how to define the entire gene sequence of each organism. However, looking at all of an organism's genes ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a ...

Individual organisms in a community interact in many different ways. An interaction may benefit both individuals, or the interaction may benefit one organism to the detriment of the other.