Explore the complex balance of risks and benefits in gene drives, a powerful tool in genetic engineering and disease control.

Tomato spotted wilt virus is neither a fungus nor a bacterium, but a virus that infects hundreds of plant species. The virus is mainly spread by western flower thrips, among other thrips species, ...

Yibin Zhu’s work highlights how microbiota from both the hosts and vectors can either promote or suppress virus transmission.

A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has endorsed the proposed introduction of state police but warned that the reform could fail unless law enforcement agencies ...

Sol and Terra set new high benchmark scores, while Luna performs near GPT-5.5 levels on several tests despite being ...

A research team from the Technion's Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering has developed an original technology for treating cancer using nanoparticles that carry no drugs at all and has demonstrated ...

AI industry rivals rarely agree, but they’re all concerned their technology could be used to develop biological weapons. AI industry rivals rarely agree, but they’re all concerned their technology ...

Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons. The CEOs of several major ...

Trump’s controversial anti-weaponization fund appears dead after courts blocked it and Republicans refused to support it on Capitol Hill. The fight has exposed growing fractures inside the GOP and ...

House Democrats unanimously rebelled against legislation Thursday directing the construction of a new women’s history museum on the National Mall. Democrats sought to defeat the bill after Republicans ...

The novel kit leverages advanced cell-free protein synthesis technology to enable rapid, efficient in vitro production of target proteins and antibodies–eliminating the constraints of traditional cell ...