On February 25 and 26 the US Food and Drug Administration discussed the possibility of legalising three-parent embryos – or, ...

Researchers at Princeton University have discovered the 3D structure of an enzyme that cuts to ribbons the genetic material of ...

There are more than a trillion cells called neurons that form a labyrinth of connections in our brains. Each of ...

London designer and researcher Shamees Aden is developing a concept for running shoes that would be 3D-printed from synthetic biological ...

Tissue engineering is the use of a combination of cells, engineering and materials methods, and suitable biochemical and physio-chemical factors ...

IBM’s Watson is one of the smartest computer systems on the planet: its advanced artificial intelligence can answer natural language ...

The Institute of Bioengineering at Zhejiang University was established in 1986 and is one of the seven institutes in the ...

Scientists at Imperial College London are aiming to cut the need to use animals in research by improving methods for ...

In 3D, healthy hearts do their own version of the twist. Rather than a simple pumping action, they circulate blood ...

Scientists at EPFL have greatly improved the effectiveness of growth factors, paving new strategies for regenerative medicine. When we are ...

A team of Stanford Bio-X scientists has found the secret to how nerves withstand the wear and tear of bending ...

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers created new nerve cells in the brains and spinal cords of living mammals without the ...

Using tiny particles designed to target cancer-fighting immune cells, Johns Hopkins researchers have trained the immune systems of mice to ...

Cambridge research that has for the first time successfully grown “mini-livers” from adult mouse stem cells has won the UK’s ...

Simply making nanoparticles spin coaxes them to arrange themselves into what University of Michigan researchers call 'living rotating crystals' that ...

Cancer is the second leading cause of disease-related death in the United States, and may overtake heart disease without aggressive ...

Cells in our body are constantly dividing to maintain our body functions. At each division, our DNA code and a ...

Low-cost urine test developed by MIT engineers amplifies signals from growing tumors to detect disease. Cancer rates in developing nations ...

Using an inexpensive 3-D printer, biomedical engineers have developed a custom-fitted, implantable device with embedded sensors that could transform treatment ...

Our cells don't live in a vacuum. They are surrounded by a complex, nurturing matrix that is essential for many ...