Scientists secretly wired dogs’ brains to steer their behavior, revealing just how far the agency was willing to push its ...

One of the runners-up in the “general synthetic lifeform” category of our Mad Science Contest was Rizgar Mella, who wrote a paper discussing the possibility of software-controlled organisms. Mella ...

Large swaths of single-celled eukaryotes, non-bacterial single-cell organisms like microalgae, fungi or mold, can control microbiomes (a collection of tiny microbes, mostly bacteria) by secreting ...

Peter Kennelly, a professor of biochemistry at Virginia Tech, is probing nature's own command and control network to understand how it functions and to develop new strategies for genetically ...