Aaron Traywick, the theatrical CEO of a regulation-averse biotech company called Ascendance Biomedical who recently injected himself with an untested herpes treatment on stage at a conference in Texas ...

Over the last few years, advances in science have made the kind of experiments once only accessible to PhDs with fancy labs far more attainable. College undergrads are constructing gene drives. Anyone ...

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The creators of FOX's new science-fiction buddy-cop show, Almost Human focuses the uncontrollable evolution of emerging tech. The solution is real cops need robot cop partners to help control crime.

In a laboratory in New York City, molecular biologist Roy Buchanan is finishing up at the bench for the day. It is eight o’clock in the evening, and while late night work is a familiar scenario for ...

Biotechnology is moving out of universities and corporations — and coming to a community center near you. The Silicon Valley-based club BioCurious, seeking to bring life sciences within reach of do-it ...

A new study suggests that a supplement popular in longevity circles may not be the anti-aging breakthrough it’s been cracked up to be. The findings cast doubt on earlier research that hyped it as a ...

IT LOOKS like an experimental cooking class as participants taste a green powder, pull faces and then mix it into a concoction of fruit and milk. But the event organised by Open Wetlab in Amsterdam ...

In an old bank building in Brooklyn, N.Y., amateur microbiologists were tinkering with DNA when the anarchist appeared. Then came a robotics expert, coders and other industry revolutionaries. Before ...

Real vegan cheese. It’s not an oxymoron, it’s a miracle of synthetic biology. If you’re a vegan, cheese options are limited. There are high-quality vegan cheeses out there, but they just don’t taste ...