The first sugar substitutes, like saccharine, became commonly used during the First World War when real sugar became scarce. They weren’t a way to lose weight. They were a way to replace what was no ...

Imagine a world where people don’t bleed to death for lack of blood available for transfusions after car accidents or on the battlefield. Case Western Reserve University is currently participating in ...

Researchers have synthesized a set of chemical relatives of DNA that can base pair and transfer information with it. They then evolved enzymes that could copy it, and showed that the synthetic genetic ...