The United States has long led the global biomedical research and pharmaceutical development industry - but that leadership ...

Biology, the study of life, offers a degree that’s as versatile as it is impactful. From understanding the complexities of human health to exploring ecosystems and advancing biotechnology, biology ...

Biology at other schools may be considered traditional, but at RIT it’s anything but. Smartphones that monitor heart health via an ECG. Biodegradable plastics that don’t harm the environment. Urban ...

The first biotech revolution began 50 years ago when molecular biologists used DNA engineering to introduce a foreign genetic sequence into a bacteria and successfully produce a protein not encoded by ...

The U.S. has been adept at inventing The Next Big Thing, but sometimes stumbles when it comes to exploiting it. From cars to electronics, solar panels, and semiconductors, this pattern has been ...

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 ...

The global biotechnology market is expected to grow at a rate of 13-15% over the next five years. Key drivers of this growth ...

A paper by Northwestern University researchers outlines a new framework for teaching synthetic biologists that focuses on societal problems first and how they could be addressed. Synthetic biologists ...

Our circadian clocks play a crucial role in our health and well-being, keeping our 24-hour biological cycles in sync with ...

Biotechnology and genetic engineering startup Colossal Biosciences announced in January that it wants to bring back the dodo — an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in ...