Chemical biology continues to grow and blur the theoretical and empirical boundaries between chemistry and biology. Federal funding agencies, including the US National Science Foundation, will be ...

Chemical biology combines the scientific ideas and approaches of chemistry, biology and allied disciplines to understand and manipulate biological systems with molecular precision.

In this interview, Professor James J. Collins, founder of the field of Synthetic Biology, discusses his journey to founding ...

Researchers have discovered a strategy to neutralize two highly lethal viruses for which there is currently no approved ...

Look inside a brain cell with Huntington's disease or ALS and you are likely to find RNA clumped together. These solid-like clusters, thought to be irreversible, can act as sponges that soak up ...

For a long time, the soil was the domain of chemistry and physics. This only changed forty years ago. Today, the soil has ...

With the increasing demand for international education among Hong Kong students and parents, the GCE A-Level has taken center stage in the local education landscape. In today's competitive academic ...

PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

Liquid biopsies are tests that detect signs of cancer through a simple blood draw. Unlike traditional biopsies, which require ...

The key change is an ancient defense system. Basically, these tomatoes are manufacturing a version of an alkaloid whose ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...

Methylation changes in microbiome-derived cfRNA enable more accurate CRC diagnosis than traditional DNA or abundance-based ...