Using only a genetic map as a guide, U.S. researchers said on Thursday they had built a polio virus from scratch and used it to infect and paralyze lab mice. It is the closest anyone has yet come to ...

LONDON: Scientists in the US have, for the first time, fabricated a working copy of a dangerous virus from scratch in the lab, using chemicals obtained by mail order and the publicly available ...

Eight-year-old Lincoln Boucher took no notice of the scratch he got from a swooping bat. The boy carried on as normal at the Queensland Whitsunday islands resort where his parents worked. But hours ...

A team spanning Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, Texas Children's Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has developed a new way to sequence genomes, which can assemble the ...

A team of scientists has developed a new way to sequence genomes, which can assemble the genome of an organism, entirely from scratch, dramatically cheaper and faster. A team spanning Baylor College ...