From the chimera in Greek mythology to the sphinx in ancient Egypt, humans have imagined making creatures from pieces of...

MIT engineers have transformed bacterial cells into living calculators that can compute logarithms, divide, and take square roots, using three...

Zhenan Bao, a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford, has developed a heart monitor thinner than a dollar bill and...

Development of a sophisticated artificial pancreas holds potential to transform the lives of patients with Type 1 diabetes.Type 1 diabetes...

The Board of Trustees of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) has chosen Dr. Josep Samitier as the center’s...

Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) have successfully reprogrammed human skin...

It’s a familiar scenario – a patient receives a medical implant and days later, the body attacks the artificial valve...

When cells suffer too much DNA damage, they are usually forced to undergo programmed cell death, or apoptosis. However, cancer...

Your brain often works on autopilot when it comes to grammar. That theory has been around for years, but University...

Genes make up about 2 percent of the human genome. The rest consists of a genetic material known as noncoding...

The Centre for Blast Injury Studies and the Department of Bioengineering wish to appoint an outstanding individual who will establish...

The US team fitted two rats with devices called brain-to-brain interfaces that let the animals collaborate on simple tasks to...

Two Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers — a stem cell biologist and a practicing cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s...

Although there are medications that can compensate for the loss of female sex hormone production, the drugs are often not...