Scientists have created the world’s first man-made cell that can eat, grow and reproduce. Called SpudCell, it is the work of ...

Swarms of Asian longhorned ticks are suspected of overwhelming cattle at a Tennessee farm.

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

"We’re hoping we’re really starting the true age of bioeconomy, enabling technology that will let people engineer biology." ...

(Diane Isabel/iStock/Getty Images) The world's population is shifting. We're living longer than ever before, with elderly ...

The deadly H5 form of bird flu that has cut a swath across North America and elsewhere for the past five years has finally been detected in Australia. So what’s stopping this virus turning into the ...

Areas of East Tennessee are infested with ticks that can carry diseases. Here’s how to avoid them and what to do if you get ...

Commercialized PGT risks not only flattening human variation but swelling the moral burdens of parenthood and further eroding ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell.

When most people think of bees, they picture honey bees buzzing around a hive. But honey bees are just a small part of a much ...

Artificial intelligence can now imitate sentience. But the deeper concern is what conscious beings owe to one another once ...

Scott Solomon is an evolutionary biologist. We spoke to him about what our descendants in future settlements on the Red ...