When did you first agree to become smaller than you actually are? Someone underestimated you once — a baseless social assumption, no evidence, no authority. Yet glutamate — a concept drawn directly ...

A team at UT Southwestern Medical Center has identified a structural trick that lets viruses translate their genetic code inside human cells, even when that code is riddled with “bad” codons the host ...

Synthetic biology is the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes. We developed a strategy ...