Aging is the biggest risk factor for cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and cardiovascular disease, according to UW Health.
In a series of posts I want to explore the interplay between basic biology, which looks at the natural world to learn about how life works, and synthetic biology, which studies what is not found in ...
A tricky new online quiz designed to test your general knowledge is baffling the web. Shared on US based site Playbuzz by Terry Stein, the general knowledge test poses difficult questions covering ...
Biology is the science of life and living organisms which includes structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, etc. In other words, we can say to study plant and animal life of a particular region ...
Can you tell your chromosomes from your photosynthesis, or has all that information you learned in biology at school faded from memory? Tal Garner put together this fiendish quiz for the US-based ...
At the creature creation station at the new BioDesign Studio, visitors act like bioengineers. By sticking together a kit of computerized blocks that represent genes for various traits, they can create ...
BAR HARBOR, ME and SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - April 26, 2016) - The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), a nonprofit biomedical research institution, and Calico, a company focused on aging research ...
Following Hans-Jörg Rheinberger's epistemological concept we show how a generic element of synthetic biology, the "biological switch", can be integrated into an experimental system. Here synthetic ...