Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine

While we’ve derived useful molecules from the leech, live leech therapy has been largely marginalized in the West. It is time we reevaluate why.

A plant biologist’s quest to design and create 1,000 unique flowers, mostly in his spare time.

Sunlight represents a seemingly endless source of largely untapped energy. Just how endless is it?

There are at least 10,000 known monogenic diseases. When attempting to cure them, how do clinicians decide which gene-therapy delivery method is best?

How a discovery in a Danish lake changed our understanding of biological communities and energy.

A look inside Parallel Squared Technology Institute, a focused research organization trying to make analyzing a proteome as easy as DNA sequencing.