A third of states—and many individual districts —have now adopted the Next Generation Science Standards, which emphasize scientific inquiry and link broad concepts across the science fields. But many ...

In a series of posts I want to explore the interplay between basic biology, which looks at the natural world to learn about how life works, and synthetic biology, which studies what is not found in ...

At the creature creation station at the new BioDesign Studio, visitors act like bioengineers. By sticking together a kit of computerized blocks that represent genes for various traits, they can create ...