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Mice don’t get Alzheimer’s, so why test Alzheimer's drugs on them?
Lab-grown human cells offer a revolutionary new model for bio-medical research.
Wildfires are burning with an intensity that microbial communities haven’t evolved to endure
As desertification threatens, synthetic biologists are pondering new ways of helping soil heal
What would it be like to grow up as the first mammoth-elephant hybrid?
Meet Greta, the loneliest creature in the world
Don’t look now, but we could soon be growing steaks and pork loins in a lab
Inside the international research effort to deliver a more substantial cut of cultured meat
Did these scientists just create the first lab-grown human breast milk?
Meet the two women recreating mother nature’s baby formula.
Inside Cameron Semper’s efforts to reimagine cultured seafood
Meet the young scientist trying to get the beef out of cell-based fish
How an undergraduate paper helped launch the cultured meat industry
Inside Isha Datar's 10-year push to make meat without animals a reality
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Who decides when life begins? How do we define a disease? What kind of gene edits should be allowed?
Who has the answers to the questions posed by genetic modification?
Fewer crops are feeding more people worldwide – and that’s not good
Reduced agrobiodiversity threatens the stability of our whole food system
Mark Lynas on the complexity of disagreeing on GMOs
'I try to take people at face value in terms of what their objections are, and to not ascribe them with ill-intent'
The art of publicly changing your mind on GMOs
'Seeds of Science' makes a persuasive case for GM technology by a man who used to oppose it
Simulating evolution helped scientists design a better virus
It sounds like an arcane superpower. It boils down to random mutation and selection
Scientists have learned to grow brain tissue to 100x (just add water)
A new technique to expand cells seems like science fiction: it lets researchers bypass laws of microscope physics
The next revolution in food is being held up by regulation
The FDA's slow processes are keeping safe, environmentally friendly products off the shelves
