When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully synthetic genome, it marked a turning point in how scientists think about life.

The following area students received academic awards at Lebanon Valley College: • Gracyn Amato, Shillington, Sigma Alpha Iota “College Honor” Award. • Lauren Atkins, Hamburg, Alumni Scholarship. • ...

A Moffitt Cancer Center researcher has introduced a new model that addresses one of biology's most fundamental questions: How does genetic information keep living systems organized and therefore alive ...

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Six biotechs based in California, Massachusetts, Washington and Denmark had to halt drug development efforts this year. One ...

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Artificial intelligence can do a lot of things, but controlling the weather isn’t one of them.

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BioMedWire Editorial Coverage: Biotechnology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation, one that is reshaping how investors understand value in a sector ...