Synthetic genes designed into a cell’s genetic material that can be induced or suppressed at will have had one major problem: precise control. Where even trace amounts of a protein can mean the ...

Complex biological systems are more than the sum of their parts – their properties emerge from the dynamic interaction of their components, such as molecules or cells. PhD researchers now have the ...

An international study has used a computational biology tool that, by analyzing a multitude of biological data from multiple sclerosis patients ranging from genetic information to the whole organism, ...

Do chaos and complexity play a fundamental role in biological information processing? The interdisciplinary approach to problems that till recently were addressed in the hermetic framework of distinct ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...

Since the advent of the Human Genome Project, scientists have expanded efforts to map complete biological datasets that encompass entire molecular families, such as DNA, RNA, proteins, and metabolites ...

A 3D graphic showing an artist's interpretation of human X and Y chromosomes. On the left are blue bundles of genetic material making an X shape and on the right blue bundles of genetic material ...

Thomas Merritt receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. Allie Hutchings does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

1. The expansion of intensive agricultural practices is a major threat to biodiversity and to the delivery of ecosystem services on which humans depend. Local-scale conservation management strategies, ...