Rice lab pioneers an assembly kit for synthetic sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. Rice University bioengineers have ...

Resistance to diseases could be introduced into susceptible crops using genetic engineering. Not only can this protect the crop, it can also safeguard farmers' livelihoods. An example is ...

A Stone Age diet “is the one and only diet that ideally fits our genetic makeup,” writes Loren ... Islands off the coast of India get by on protein from insects. “What makes us human is ...