Anna Sumner craved sleep, and therefore figured she must need sleep. She slept more and more from the time she was a teenager until it interfered with her job as a lawyer, sometimes for days at a time. After Sumner was d...

Alexander Kobulnicky paints pictures of molecules. Pictured above is heme, which is one ingredient in hemoglobin.  The artist writes: We know that molecules form the basis of matter, of the human body and of the natu...

There's a lot of fascinating things about molecula...  ...molecular biology (I should know, I have a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology) - but a lot of students ge...  ...and lost later on - and many of the textbooks of biochemistry , cell biology and molecular bio are b-o-r-i-n-g....

Meredeith Patterson is a computer programmer by day and biohacker at night. She is among a new breed of DIYers who are trying to do genetic engineering at the comfort of their own homes:Using homemade lab equipment and t...