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The money he earned doing that was enough to put Cocioba through the first years of a biology degree at Stony Brook University. He completed a stint with an abandoned …

In the past, having a pimple meant disguising layers of foundation, concealer, powder… or maybe just a strategically angled hairstyle. But now the game has changed: why hide a pimple …

when you think When it comes to skincare, snail mucin probably isn’t the first product that comes to mind. But snail secretion filtrate (a mucus these tiny mollusks produce to …

Nearly a year after its approval, the first medical treatment using Nobel Prize-winning Crispr technology is now being administered to patients. Called Casgevy, the gene-editing treatment is intended for people …

Chloroplasts, the parts. The cells that allow plants and algae to carry out photosynthesis are thought to have originated more than a billion years ago, when photosynthetic cyanobacteria lived symbiotically …

One of them, called Argus II, was approved for commercial use in Europe in 2011 and in the United States in 2013. That implant involved larger electrodes that were placed …

“Growth, growth, fast growth,” Strey says of what investors were looking for. “You burn money to grow.” Before their introduction to venture capital, the Plantix team had envisioned success simply …

But there was also security, trust in the biologists’ stories as a remedy to dispel suspicions. Because Sergeant Rocker also took to the waters and disappeared, biologists used their tracking …

To study the cell membranes of deep-sea animals, biochemist Itay Budin (center) joined forces with marine biologists Steve Haddock (right) and Jacob Winnikoff (left). Photos: Left to right: Tamrynn Clegg; …

the original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For an RNA molecule, the world is a dangerous place. Unlike DNA, which can persist for millions of years in …