Austin L. Day, a senior at the University of California at Berkeley, holds up an IV bag filled with a brown-red liquid resembling bloody-mary mix. The unsavory concoction is Berkeley’s entry in a ...

While some may believe that science is better left to scientists, hundreds of amateur biologists around the world have been setting-up makeshift biology labs in their homes, garages and community ...

Students from Trinity College Dublin have successfully created anti-malarial ‘biobricks', which could pave the way for easier and more cost-effective production of the key drug artemisinin. The ...

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BERLIN — When Steven Lanata started bringing his compressed-sawdust bricks around to hearth shops eight years ago, he faced baffled purchasing managers. “Do I eat it? Do I build a wall with it?'” he ...

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Leaders of a new movement are kicking off the first Synthetic Biology 1.0 conference at the Massachussets Institute of Technology this week. “Synthetic biology” is the blanket term ...

Cambridge, Mass. – Bioengineering designs were on display last week at the second annual International Genetically Engineered Machines design competition. Student teams from 13 universities in the ...