Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can survive intense shock waves and toxic chemicals similar to those on Mars. The ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is leader of the Synthetic Biology Group at the J Craig Venter Institute This year I witnessed ...

A tidy textbook definition of life has never existed, yet most biology lessons still lean on the idea that living things must grow, make energy, and reproduce on their own. That simple checklist ...

Perhaps you’ve read in a biology textbook that humans have the same number of genes as C. elegans, a worm used in scientific research. Perhaps you’d also like to believe that humans are more complex ...

(1) A BOOK by Dr. Jacques Loeb is always very welcome, for he bases new ideas on new facts, and these are often surprising. The central idea of this book is not new-that organisms are “chemical ...

The world is full of unusual unicellular organisms and microbes, many of which have not been discovered yet. In 2017, scientists identified a single-celled marine organism called Chromosphaera ...

Over the past several years, scientists have repeatedly demonstrated that the cells of various organisms can be repurposed into biological robots, representing stunning advancements in the field of ...

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Scientists have discovered the organism with the largest known genome, containing 160 billion base pairs. That makes it more than 50 times bigger than the human genome, and the organism it’s ...

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In a year packed with fascinating discoveries, biologists pushed the limits of synthetic life, probed how organisms keep time, and refined theories about consciousness and emotional health.