Exams regulator Ofqual is consulting on allowing exam boards to each submit proposals for two qualifications with onscreen ...

Every clonal raider ant lives a nearly identical life. Each new generation of these blind, queenless ants is born at the same ...

Researchers have found a way to revive tired or damaged cells by giving them a fresh supply of mitochondria, the tiny ...

A new Dartmouth study opens new avenues for understanding—and potentially manipulating—how cells decide to live or die.

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Brain organoids can be a good step forward, assuming they are grown from induced human pluripotent stem cells. That allows us to sidestep ethical concerns about the use of human embryos, thereby ...

Computational biology and bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops and applies computational methods to analyse large collections of biological data, such as genetic sequences, cell ...

Synthetic biology is the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes. Releasing only males ...