In 1872, Eadweard Muybridge captured a series of photos of a running horse. His images settled a debate about whether the animal ever lifted all four feet off the ground at once—it did. They also ...

A red quarter of a circle with the words 'The Quarter Mark' beside it. A year-long series looking back on the most significant moments of the past 25 years, how they changed our world, and how they ...

When scientists discovered how bacteria protect themselves against viral invaders, called phages, in the early 2000s, little did they know they'd stumbled upon a revolutionary tool researchers could ...

The colonies of Escherichia coli sitting in this petri dish become pathogenic when they carry Shiga toxin genes. Credit: Shutterstock “We’re essentially converting a pathogenic strain into a ...

Another day, another CRISPR issue to worry about. Shares of gene-editing biotechs CRISPR Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CRSP), Editas Medicine (NASDAQ: EDIT), and Intellia Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NTLA) sank on ...

It's been called the biggest biotech discovery of the century. And one company claims the largest market cap of any biotech focused on this major breakthrough. *As of Jul. 12, 2018. Data source: Yahoo ...

The new research focused on a particular protein used by bacteriophages (representational). As the globe faces a rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria – making traditional antibiotics ineffective – ...

While tools like CRISPR have blown the field of genome hacking wide open, being able to predict what will happen when you tinker with the code underlying the living things on our planet is still ...

Since the genetic code was first deciphered in the 1960s, our genes seemed like an open book. By reading and decoding our chromosomes as linear strings of letters, like sentences in a novel, we can ...