This research is part of a growing field called ‘active matter,’ which could one day lead to new drug delivery methods and self-repairing materials. Most materials, like wood or plastic, stay still ...

Using genes borrowed from bacteria, researchers have demonstrated fish and flies can be engineered to break down methylmercury and remove it from their bodies as a less harmful gas, offering new ways ...

Yale researchers have created "Ochre," a genomically recoded organism that enables the production of synthetic proteins with ...

Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of 'life-like' synthetic materials which are able to move by themselves like worms. Scientists have been investigating a new class of materials ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new details about how the human genome produces instructions for creating ...