The Amgen Foundation has announced a three-year, $3 million grant to develop comprehensive biology lessons at the Khan Academy — a nonprofit dedicated to providing free online education. With the ...

THIS MUST BE Genetic Disorders Month in Kelsey’s biology class. I know the teacher is trying to explain how genes and chromosomes work, but every day my 16-year-old comes home with a new, often fatal, ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Students at Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu are hooked on learning, and it's because of one teacher's unconventional methods that turned their lessons into a video game.

Novel perspectives emerge from a recent conference on the origins of eukaryotic cells, which covered phylogenetics, population genetics and evolutionary consequences of energy requirements and ...

The Polymerase Chain Reaction was developed in 1983, and since that time it's become one of the most commonly-used techniques in labs across the world. The ability to amplify one region of DNA using ...