On Sept. 28, 1928, Alexander Fleming woke up to check on his experiments investigating bacterial growth — and accidentally discovered the world's first antibiotic. The Scottish physicist and ...

Uganda has become a testing ground for political experimentation by white Christian nationalists in the United States and their allies in government. The Trump administration’s ongoing effort to ...

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The proto-eyes are what really disturbed me. For the past decade, medical researchers have been growing living, miniature replicas of parts of the human brain from stem cells. Such brain “organoids,” ...

After a bit of time, he pulls out the dish to find all sorts of nasty cultures on it. It's some really gross-looking stuff. We don't know exactly what was found, but he said in a caption that it ...

Three startups launch, and David Liu has co-founded another gene-editing startup. More in the Petri Dish. Biotech to lose 95 employees in Cambridge in mass layoff ...

When Tim Scott, a senator from South Carolina, stepped onto a stage at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on August 15th, his first topic was how brilliant the woman interviewing him was. That was Kim ...

A team has induced stem cells to emulate the development of the human heart. The result is a sort of 'mini-heart' known as an organoid. It will permit the study of the earliest development phase of ...

Abstract: Non-thermal plasmas offer an effective method for sterilization. For medical applications, such as wound care or plaque removal, the plasma must be cold, i.e. at room temperature. Further it ...