The parasite has a long incubation period, which means affected people might not experience explosive diarrhea up to two weeks after exposure ...

Thousands of cyclosporiasis cases across dozens of US states triggered investigations, but the exact contamination source ...

Knights of science have long chased a biologic holy grail: transforming a soup of raw chemicals into self-sustaining life. Now, a team led by synthetic biologist Kate Adamala, of the University of ...

A look at this blob and it’s nothing special. It looks like a microscopic water droplet. But it’s also arguably the closest researchers have come to building a living cell from scratch. Researchers at ...

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From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology. By K. R. Callaway SpudCell is a synthetic cell made by scientists at the ...

Minions & Monsters is out now, and the newest movie in the Despicable Me and Minions franchise redefines what can be done with the yellow, overall-wearing, gibberish-speaking troublemakers. Early in ...

Biomaterials with extraordinary properties, such as spider silk, have so far been known primarily from animals. Researchers at the University of Salzburg in Austria have now deciphered a surprising ...

The PR 2 database was initiated in 2010 in the frame of the BioMarks project from work that had developed in the previous ten years in the Plankton Group of the Station Biologique of Roscoff. Its aim ...

Scientists have discovered a new form of biological reproduction -- and created self-replicating living robots. Made from frog cells, these computer-designed organisms gather single cells inside a Pac ...