Programming living cells offers the prospect of harnessing sophisticated biological machinery for transformative applications in energy, agriculture, water remediation and...

When you get sick, your physician may take a sample of your blood, send it to the lab and wait...

Adults suffering from diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood-related disorders may benefit from life-saving treatment commonly used in...

A smartphone app that monitors subtle qualities of a person's voice during everyday phone conversations shows promise for detecting early...

Melbourne researchers have overturned a 40-year-old theory on when and how cells divide, showing that 'parent' cells program a cell...

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have engineered a bacterium whose genetic material includes an added pair of DNA...

Cells have to protect themselves: against damage in their genetic material for one thing, but also against attack from the...

For the first time ever, a group of Danish and Chinese researchers has sequenced the genome of the spider. This...

Bioengineers at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the University of Montreal have used DNA to develop a tool...

Rice University bioengineers have created a hydrogel that instantly turns from liquid to semisolid at close to body temperature –...

A 2-year post-doctoral position in available for an international research project based in the Dept of Bioengineering at the Grenoble...

For HIV patients being treated with anti-AIDS medications, resistance to drug therapy regimens is commonplace. Often, patients develop resistance to...

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have taken a very important step towards understanding cell reprogramming...

For many people, "plastic" is a one-word analog for environmental disaster. It is made from precious petroleum, after all, and...

It's about the size of a large vitamin pill and, for the first time in Ohio, the smallest heart pacemaker...

Almost every biological process involves sensing the presence of a certain chemical. Finely tuned over millions of years of evolution,...

Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important step in understanding how hearts are formed in developing...

A new study led by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine has painted a clearer picture...

The latest organ-on-a-chip from Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering reproduces the structure, functions and cellular make-up of bone...

Most plants try to turn towards the sun. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg have worked with Finnish colleagues to...