The synthetic biology community lost one of its founding giants today. Craig Venter - scientist, provocateur, and relentless force of nature - has passed away.

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Imagine a catastrophic earthquake shaking California's coastline, followed by landslides that block vital roads. Or a rainstorm hitting a region devastated by wildfires, triggering debris flows of unr...

The Tol-Pal complex is important for multiple cellular processes in Gram-negative bacteria, but its molecular functions remain unclear. Here, Tan & Chng provide experimental evidence supporting th...

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Earlier this month, the National Institutes of Health issued supplemental guidance indicating it would immediately impose a 15% cap on indirect costs for research grants, an unprecedented and abrup…

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Background Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence research include the development of generative pretrained transformers (GPT). ChatGPT has been shown to perform well when answering several s...

The role of farmed animals in the viral spillover from wild animals to humans is of growing importance. Between July and September of 2023 infectious disease outbreaks were reported on six Arctic f...