Scientists are learning how to turn neurons on and off at will by shining light into caverns of the mind,...

  Anew finding by Harvard stem cell biologists turns one of the basics of neurobiology on its head by demonstrating...

Researchers at MIT, the Broad Institute and Rockefeller University have developed a new technique for precisely altering the genomes of...

Protein engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have tapped into a hidden talent of one of nature's most...

The human body contains immune cells programmed to fight cancer and viral infections, but they often have short lifespans and...

UC San Diego bioengineers have dashed the hopes of scientists looking for an easy way to determine how genes are...

A five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to Tufts University will help launch an interdisciplinary graduate program to enable...

  Bioengineers at ETH Zurich developed a new synthesis procedure for a catalyst. This procedure may be used for the...

If you ever need to isolate a single bacterial cell, why not build it a prison cell? This is the...

Genetic tests can offer deep insights into your future health. But would you really want to know?

The University of Exeter has announced plans to build a research centre to develop strategies for diagnosing and treating diseases....

Some people dress up their pets in clothes so that they will look more like their human owners. Turns out,...

Biongineers from the universities of Sheffield and Sussex are planning on scanning the brains of bees and uploading them into...

For their pioneering work on developing a bionic eye, two University of New South Wales (UNSW) engineers have been honoured...

Bioengineers have developed a prototype ultra-sensitive sensor that would enable doctors to detect the early stages of diseases and viruses...

In a bioengineering laboratory at Stanford University, Christopher Contag, a microbiologist, is designing new approaches to “virtual” pathology.

In an extremely exciting find, scientists at Aarhus University in Denmark found a type of bacteria that creates electrical currents...

A new regulator for heart formation has been discovered by studying how embryonic stem cells adjust the packaging of their...

DNA-based imaging, computer models map cell-to-neighbor-cell organizationFrom the surface looking into a clear body of water everything from the water’s...

Bacteria in your gut may be influencing your thoughts and moods, raising the possibility that probiotics could be used to...