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

Scientists at Oregon State University have engineered a powerful new nanomaterial that zeroes in on cancer cells and destroys them from the inside out. Designed to exploit cancer’s unique ...

Scientists succeed in using bacteria and discarded bread to replace fossil fuels in an innovative sustainable industrial ...

New research suggests that Jupiter’s icy moons may have formed with complex organic molecules already embedded in their building blocks.

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben's discovery of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in 1940 helped usher in a new era of dating ...

Galvan grew up in Booker, a small town at the top right corner of the Texas panhandle. She opted to attend West Texas A&M ...

Building an AI infrastructure for biotech. Bacteria that munch on cancer. How to best make a cold brew. All that and more in ...

This science piece is a winning entry for a nationwide science journalism competition by Raffles Institution students. Read ...

Calling green fluorescent protein a model protein would also improve how biology is taught. Like classic model organisms, green fluorescent protein is safe and visual. It is also forgiving, producing ...