A holoparasitic plant replaces its own genes with host DNA to survive

All living organisms are known to inherit genes, DNA sequences that contain instructions for producing specific proteins and ...
Virginia Business

General Dynamics’ Deep promoted to president

Danny Deep, General Dynamics‘ executive vice president of global operations, has been promoted to president of the Reston-based Fortune 100 government contractor, the company announced Friday. Deep ...

3D genome analysis of germ cell formation tracks 350 million years of vertebrate evolution

A research team led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has revealed how the genome is reorganized in 3D during ...
The Economist

Scientists take another step towards lab-made life

What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...
The Economist

Scientists have built a cell from the ground up

Their bodies and their genomes were built in the lab from scratch, each molecule specified precisely. According to John Glass ...