Genetics

The U.S., Brazil and Argentina have the most biotechnology enhanced crops. Brazil is showing the fastest growth rate.

2 | February 22, 2011 9:43am | By Larry Dignan

A cure for baldness might be closer than you think. Find out how scientists accidently found a possible treatment for baldness when studying all things stress.

6 | February 16, 2011 9:08pm | By Boonsri Dickinson

When stem cells in hair follicles carry a cancer-causing mutation, the healing process after a simple skin injury could result in skin cancer.

4 | February 15, 2011 12:09pm | By Janet Fang

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2 | February 15, 2011 10:07am | By Andrew Nusca

Scientists are understanding the cause of an untreatable eye disease and the leading cause of blindness. Therapies will be tested in the foreseeable future.

8 | February 7, 2011 5:22pm | By Janet Fang

Conservationist Wallace J. Nichols argues that environmental problems should be addressed using neuroscience and empathy, in addition to using facts, figures and statistics. People make decisions,...

24 | January 31, 2011 2:00am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

Biologists are engineering plants to detect biological and chemical weapons by changing color in the presence of contaminants.

January 27, 2011 3:46pm | By Boonsri Dickinson

Creating evolutionary robots might lead to more adaptive machines.

1 | January 20, 2011 2:46pm | By Boonsri Dickinson

Princeton scientists create synthetic proteins that enable cells to grow.

6 | January 6, 2011 4:43pm | By Boonsri Dickinson

Science writer Dan Grushkin opened the nation's first community biotech laboratory. At Genspace, biology enthusiasts pay a monthly membership to use the equipment and training facilities.

1 | January 3, 2011 6:03pm | By Boonsri Dickinson

A new molecule nicknamed "longdaysin" promises to disrupt the biological clock, paving the way for a pill for jet lag or severe sleep disorders.

3 | December 22, 2010 9:27am | By Andrew Nusca

Tuberculosis bacteria recruit stem cells to establish long-lasting infections. Drugs that target this protective layer of stem cells could be the newest arsenal against TB, which still kills 2...

1 | December 7, 2010 1:24pm | By Janet Fang

Brain tumors can grow their own blood vessels, explaining why drugs designed to choke off their oxygen supply often fail.

1 | November 22, 2010 11:34pm | By Janet Fang

Researchers have developed bacteria nicknamed "BacillaFilla" that can fill cracks in concrete structures.

10 | November 17, 2010 7:19am | By Andrew Nusca

A test of reaction times in middle age may identify people with rice-sized lesions in the brain that are a precursor to Alzheimer's.

7 | November 12, 2010 7:38am | By Dana Blankenhorn

On a quest to grow livers that could eventually be used for human transplantation, researchers at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have surpassed an early, but integral hurdle.

November 9, 2010 4:00am | By Christina Hernandez

Increasingly, global companies are looking to the non-profit sector for insight and to build more impactful corporate social responsibility programs.

November 4, 2010 2:39pm | By Heather Clancy

Pancreatic cancer isn't the fast-growing killer we think it is.

14 | October 28, 2010 8:21am | By Dana Blankenhorn

A new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates one third of American adults could be diabetic in 2050, if present trends hold.

3 | October 22, 2010 9:12am | By Dana Blankenhorn

Lawsuits against military contractors have been filed in 42 states by soldiers alleging health problems from burn pits in Afghanistan and Iraq.

2 | October 18, 2010 1:15am | By Deborah Gage