Featured Projects

Better Biofuel

There may be a better biofuel on the horizon: bacteria-based biofuel.
Comparative genomics

New tools answer big questions
Conquering Cancer

A bold strategy
Environmental Sentinels

Sensors to sniff out exposure
Energy from Waste

A win-win solution
Doc in a Box

Making medicine more predictive
Microbes, Spaceflight and Human Health

Germs in space
The Best Defense

Safeguarding public health from nerve toxins
Cleaning Water with Nature

Safer drinking water
Rapid Detection of Radiation Exposure

Smarter response
Rare Energy Diseases that Affect Children

Broken metabolism
Higher Efficiency Solar Technology

Making solar energy more viable
The Cheap Genome

Low cost DNA sequencing technologies
Rapid Vaccine Discovery System

A need for speed
Tackling Tuberculosis

Strategies for new vaccine development
Pneumonia vaccine for newborns

Hope for millions
HIV/AIDS Research

Multi-pronged approach
Microscale Life Sciences

Worlds within a cell

Top Stories

New "Timetree of Life" Initiative Illuminates the Antiquity of Life on Earth

Beginning this week, scientists and non-scientists have easy access to information about when living species and their ancestors originated, information that previously was difficult to find or inaccessible. Free access to the information is part of the new Timetree of Life initiative developed by Blair Hedges, a professor of biology at Penn State University, and Sudhir Kumar, a professor of life sciences and researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute.