The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology ...

UD chemical engineer wins the AIChE Langer Prize for efforts to harness biology to manage plastic waste sustainably ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

Scientists have succeeded in controlling the structure and function of biological membranes with the help of 'DNA origami'. The system they developed may facilitate the transportation of large ...

When Anna Grygiel moved with her family to the United States from Poland in the sixth grade, she’d never had any training in English. Now, a decade later, it is one of two majors the SUNY Cortland ...

The brain does not need its sophisticated cortex to interpret the visual world. A new study published in PLOS Biology ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

What is Basic Science Research? Basic science research focuses on foundational questions that help us to better understand human biology and cancer. The Setty Lab investigates fundamental questions ...

Dovi Kacev is an assistant teaching professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He received his bachelor’s degree in economics and biology with a minor in ocean sciences from UCLA in 2002. He ...

There’s no question that contraceptives have been fundamental in the modern fight for gender equality. Since women and birthing people gained the ability to choose if and when they wanted children, ...