Science What Are Genetically Recoded Organisms? Researchers have developed a new kind of genetic engineering that may be safer, with the power to make never-before-seen types of protein.

Yet the largest recorded organism on Earth, weighing more than 200 blue whales and dwarfing even Pando, Utah’s famous grove of quaking aspens, is nearly invisible to the untrained eye.

Think of what would happen if a single celled organism were punctured or infected. It would die. When one cell in a multi-celled organism dies, it gets replaced. However, if we were made up of only ...

Whether a minimally genomed organism of the sort Dr Venter and his colleagues have created will actually have an important role, either practical or theoretical, remains to be seen.

For example, if the environment fluctuates twice as slowly, the organism's learning rate should decrease by a factor of 1.4 (the square root of 2). This square root scaling represents an optimal ...

The first known “virovore”- an organism that eats viruses- has been found, researchers claimed. The breakthrough has been made by John DeLong and his team. John DeLong is a microbiologist from ...

Probably. And if such organisms can learn and feel, albeit in ways unfamiliar to us, what does it say about how we treat them in our recreational, research, and culinary pursuits? Above all else, ...

Ironically, genome sequencing is one of two major technical advances that has begun to break biology’s reliance on just a few model organisms. The cost of genome sequencing has dropped precipitously, ...