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

New research suggests that the origins of life may be tied not only to deep-sea hydrothermal vents but also to environments ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...