Biotech News

For many of us, food is something we buy at a supermarket or order at a café. We usually give... Read more

Fruit flies, mice, zebrafish, yeast and the tiny worm C. elegans are model organisms that have carried modern biology on... Read more

A new bioengineered neuronal circuit board "BioConNet" allows scientists to artificially engineer human brain-like wiring at scale and can be... Read more

Scientists have found a way to use common bacteria as tiny, green chemical factories to replace a process that currently... Read more

Researchers at the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology have uncovered new evidence that two major types of gene-controlling... Read more

RIKEN researchers have discovered how an enzyme modifies gene expression by targeting certain stretches of messenger RNA (mRNA) while leaving... Read more

The gilthead seabream, a species of commercial interest that migrates seasonally, does not form independent local populations in the northwestern... Read more

In a world-first discovery, researchers have found an electrical shark deterrent used at Cocos (Keeling) Islands was effective at reducing... Read more

Scientists have developed a new edge-of-field water-treatment system that reduces the load of excess nutrients washing into waterways from farm... Read more

Nature does it again! The natural world has a knack for giving us the blueprints for some useful technologies, and... Read more

Scores of sea lions continue to beach themselves along the Southern California coastline, stricken with sickness. Toxic algae blooms are... Read more

Coral reefs are teeming with life: they are home to over a third of all marine animal and plant species... Read more

Indoor farms, also known as vertical farms, are popular among agricultural researchers and are expanding across the agricultural industry. Some... Read more

A new study co-authored by Virginia Tech and University of Vermont researchers offers one of the first, large-scale empirical looks... Read more

A research team led by the University of Waterloo is developing a novel tool to treat cancer by engineering hungry... Read more