Biotechnology

Smart agriculture: Farming in the digital age

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Nearly one-third of Missouri’s economy is tied to agriculture. T...

Petrina Kamya, Ph.D., Head of AI Platforms at Insilico ...

Petrina Kamya, PhD, Head of AI Platforms and President of Insilico Medicine Cana...

The fate of drug discovery in academia; dumping in the ...

“[…] fruitful efforts to bring more drugs from bench to bedside could only be po...

Scientists create effective ‘spark plug’ for direct-dri...

Scientists from the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (L...

Epigenetic combination therapy could overcome treatment...

Epithelioid sarcoma, a rare aggressive cancer that usually strikes young adults,...

HHMI Janelia scientists Eric Betzig and Harald Hess to ...

Janelia scientists and longtime collaborators Eric Betzig and Harald Hess will b...

$1.9 million NIH grant to support research on impacts o...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The bacteria and microorganisms that live within the huma...

USC researchers uncover biological circuit that protect...

Climate change is already harming agricultural yields and may one day pose a sig...

Global study unveils strategies to shield breast cancer...

In a global effort to improve the lives of breast cancer survivors, new leading ...

Understanding how soil traps carbon

EVANSTON, Ill. — When carbon molecules from plants enter the soil, they hit a de...

From Colombia to Laos: protecting crops through nanotec...

In a recent breakthrough, DNA sequencing technology has uncovered the culprit be...

Solving an age-old mystery about crystal formation

A million years ago, the oldest known species to walk upright like a human, the ...

Improved differential-neural cryptanalysis for round-re...

Deep learning has led to great improvements recently on a number of difficult ta...

A physical qubit with built-in error correction

There has been significant progress in the field of quantum computing. Big globa...

Fruit flies give further insight into evolution of male...

Embargoed until 11am ET USA/4pm GMT UK on Friday 2 February (Current Biology emb...

Rare 3D fossils show that some early trees had forms un...

In the fossil record, trees typically are preserved with only their trunks. They...