The study applied new numerical methods that calculate the rate of evolution of different characteristics across a whole evolutionary tree.

The proposed naming process begins by sampling and sequencing an organism’s DNA. The sequence is then used to generate a code unique to that individual organism based on its similarity to all previously sequenced organisms.

The Pell Laboratory for Advanced Biological Studies at Penn State University has received an Honor Award from the New England chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The Pell Lab was one of only three honor awards selected from more than 400 submissions. This is the highest award given to a project designed by New England architects.

A specialized 3D printing extruder could lower the costs of printing cellular structures for use in drug testing

Researchers are using fibres from fishing line and sewing thread to create inexpensive artificial muscles that could be used in medical devices, humanoid robots, prosthetic limbs, or woven into fabrics.

Researchers have made important discoveries regarding the behavior of a synthetic molecular oscillator, which could help create artificial cells

One of science's strongest dogmas is that complex life on Earth could only evolve when oxygen levels in the atmosphere rose to close to modern levels. But now studies of a small sea sponge fished out of a Danish Fjord shows that complex life does not need high levels of oxygen in order to live and grow.

Bugs, bats, and air cultures to be examined as blimp travels across the USA.

The chemical leak that contaminated drinking water in the Charleston, W.Va., area last month put in sharp relief the shortcomings of the policies and research that apply to thousands of chemicals in use today.

Racism as a social and scientific concept is reshaped and reborn periodically through the ages and according to a Penn State University anthropologist, both medical and scientific researchers need to be careful that the growth of genomics does not bring about another resurgence of scientific racism.

The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) has released a new quality management systems standard on laboratory internal audit programs. A laboratory audit program is critical to ensuring laboratories meet applicable requirements for quality system essentials assessments.

The new Human Neuroscience Institute in Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology aims to advance research on the neural basis of human behavior.