The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the ...

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Take a minute and imagine a world where biologists do not have a concept of life. We can call this the “No-Concept-of-Life” (NCL) World. In the NCL world, biologists struggle to characterize exactly ...

Synthetic biology is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles from biology, engineering, and computer science to design and construct new biological systems or redesign existing ones. It ...

Synthetic biology has entered a transformative phase in which the fundamental parameters of what constitutes life are being experimentally redefined. The ...

Imagine a world where the boundaries of biology are no longer fixed—a world where life can be created in a lab, where artificial intelligence can preserve a version of you long after you’re gone, and ...

Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) and National Institute for Basic Biology have developed a new method ...

Biology is much more than lab coats and lecture halls. A degree in the study of living organisms can send you and your career to any number of exciting places, from the deepest depths of the ocean to ...