We've heard of GMOs, but this is ridiculous. A bombshell report published by scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular ...

In biology and life, organisms have a basic drive to reproduce and every living thing needs energy. This is the topic for today's River Life column.

Complex organic molecules that could be the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it have been discovered in a disk of gas and dust swirling around an infant star.

Synthetic biology’s role in future development is promising because it has the potential to revolutionize various industries by enabling advancements in areas such as medicine, agriculture, defense ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of life.

The mystery of how chemistry begot biology — that is, how the molecules of the universe came together to create life — is still undetermined.