Assume some "toxic" event causes the deletion of a gene. Does anything else happen? New research suggests that deletion of gene #1 is...

As the saying goes, knowledge is power. Researchers put knowledge – and creativity – to work to find a new way to stop MRSA infections...

Over the next few decades, toxic tort litigation will be influenced by knowledge arising from long-term ongoing studies that have been in...

A town north of London actually is the process of deploying 100 driverless "pods" for public transit. Marginal Revolution has the...

(Image of central dogma of biology and provided by User:Dhorspool [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL...

Now arriving: the next step in early diagnosis of lung cancer. The prior step? Major use of low dose CT scans to find at an early stage...

Old medical records and tissue are becoming increasingly valuable as tools for finding causes of diseases that are related to mutations....

Except for one moment of outrage, PopTort provides a simple, memorable, teaching blog post quiz about why the line may be thin between an...

Epigenetics is not yet an everyday word. But it’s being discussed more and more often outside of science circles, as illustrated by this...

Sometimes it’s good to think about new things, so this week included attending a benzene litigation conference. One lesson learned from...

Science recently picked up some formidable allies as four former GOP leaders of EPA spoke out on climate change. I missed this August 1,...

Go here to sign up for a soon to debut free, online course on genetics. The course is aimed at non-experts, and is offered by 23andMe,...

(Super-sensitive nanocrystals enable the micro-structured optical fibre to remotely detect and track the movement of a single...

(Images courtesy of McGill University, and provided with press releases.) Nanoscale work is incredible and some of its uses will save...

Stunning. Using both types of stem cells (embryonic and induced) and a "scaffold and gels, scientists working in Vienna have created a...

Fracking provides a singular current example of trying to reconcile risks and benefits. The Wall Street Journal reports – briefly – on a...

New science continues to bring new words. Museumomics remains a personal favorite. Now we have archaogeneticists who practice...

Here’s a striking example of new science bringing out new legal issues. Breeders of cloned quarter horses won an antitrust law suit...

Why does exercise help the bodies of many people? We still do not understand it all, but new molecular level studies are starting to...

Amazing. MIT scientists found a way to find the location of memory, and to test whether they could create a false memory in a mouse. They...