Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote.

Researchers have created over 400 distinct types of human nerve cells in vitro, vastly expanding the diversity available for ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

This San Antonio, Tex., lab takes biosecurity seriously. Suit up with its scientists and go behind the scenes of the science of vaccine creation.

Harvard cognitive psychologist Daniel Schacter’s work has underpinned a sea change in how we think about memory; namely, that the act of remembering might be the key to how we imagine our futures.

A research laboratory for climate justice in the Pacific nation of Tuvalu is among the architecture projects by students at Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Welcome to the world of lab-grown marketing, where market research is no longer just for the Fortune 500 or the glacially paced. It’s synthetic, scalable and – thanks to a startup called ...

Imagine a future where a diagnosis of untreatable male infertility is no longer the end of the road—because science has found a way to produce human sperm from lab-engineered testicular tissue.

With their research in hand, they approached Harvard’s Office of Technology Development to license their invention for commercial use. Four years later, Schaefer and Feldhaus not only secured a ...

Facing White House cuts, New England labs are looking to foundations, industry, and even their university hosts to bankroll groundbreaking research.

The European Athletics Championships of 1966 constituted the first major international sporting event where human athletes were officially drug tested. Driving this watershed moment was growing ...