GPT-5 has for the first time demonstrated it can do the kind of lab work that opens up a pathway for AI to take a bigger role in scientific experiments, OpenAI shared first with Axios. Why it matters: ...

The lab as we know it today is being transformed by how we think about medical research and drug discovery, as well as the intersection of artificial intelligence and biotechnology. As someone who has ...

This year, Victor R. Ambros and Harvard professor Gary B. Ruvkun won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering microRNA. With this year’s prize, they join 10 other Nobel laureates who ...

The laboratory of developmental biologist Michael Levin at Tufts University, with its dozen or so postgrads, is a hub of ideas, experiments, and discoveries. Most exciting is the focus on cognition as ...

Many students who enjoy biology dream of working in a laboratory one day. School lessons about cells, diseases, and the human ...

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio activates hardware for a space biology experiment that is studying how weightlessness affects genetic expression in microbes to understand ...

Medical laboratory scientists collect samples and perform lab tests, calibrate and maintain equipment, and perform statistical analysis. Their work is crucial for clinicians to diagnose diseases.

Two years after Arizona State University replaced all of its introductory biology labs with virtual reality labs, the university’s rising tide of STEM majors are getting better overall grades and ...

A British biotech firm called Basecamp Research has spent the past few years collecting troves of genetic data from microbes living in extreme environments around the world, identifying more than a ...

Quantum effects are no longer confined to ultra-cold chips and vacuum chambers. For the first time, researchers are deliberately engineering living cells so that they behave like quantum bits, hinting ...

In Bethel’s B.S. in biology with a cellular/molecular emphasis, you’ll build a foundation in the biological sciences that will prepare you for graduate school, medical school, or various life science ...

Recently, many California residents were disturbed to learn that a small, privately-operated bio lab in the Central Valley town of Reedley was shut down by Fresno County Department of Public Health ...