Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

U.S. researchers claim to have created an organism which contains artificial genetic building blocks, which would herald a significant jump in manipulating DNA. As reported by the New York Times, ...

Life has spent the past few billion years working with a narrow vocabulary. Now researchers have broken those rules, adding extra letters to biology's limited lexicon. Chemist Floyd Romesberg of the ...