MIT researchers and colleagues have released the first draft of the dog genome sequence, which could aid the characterization of...

Bioengineers report a new approach to creating three-dimensional samples of human tissue that could push researchers closer to their ultimate...

Nano-circuit fabrication using a living bacterium? Science fiction seems to have met with reality with the news that researchers at...

DNA makes RNA makes protein. In retrospect, it couldn't be clearer. But to Alexander Rich and the other pioneers trying...

Scientists from around the world have been contacting an MIT laboratory for samples of "biorubber," a new material with myriad...

Viruses subvert their hosts to pump out masses of new viruses. In an unusual twist, a researcher reports in the...

MIT scientists wielding molecular scissors have shown for the first time that the sugar jackets of cancer cells can be...

It's not exactly "ET, phone home," but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report in the January 10 issue...

When biology met engineering, they created a new field for scientists who don't want to be hedged into one discipline....

The artificial womb exists. In Tokyo, researchers have developed a technique called EUFI -- extrauterine fetal incubation. They have taken...