A new way to artificially control muscles using light, with the potential to restore function to muscles paralysed by conditions...

DARPA, the U.S. defense agency devoted to high-risk, high-reward research, has traditionally dedicated its resources to the physical sciences: nuclear...

Prisoners with HIV fare well with treatment during incarceration, a Yale study has found. The authors write that, with the...

Researchers with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences took what some would consider garbage and made...

An international team of researchers including University of Melbourne staff has identified the exact biochemical key that awakes the body’s...

Scientists in Russia plan to use DNA - our genetic material - to help them solve one of the perennial...

University of California, San Diego research team led by bioengineer Gert Cauwenberghs is working to understand how the brain circuitry...

Iowa – A highly collaborative approach to gathering data spearheaded by Iowa State University faculty and students has revealed new...

Under the microscope, they look like art: a red dapple with green crescents, deep blue and purple spots, angular green...

Researchers reverses a liver disorder in mice by correcting a mutated gene.Using a new gene-editing system based on bacterial proteins,...

Networked nerve cells are the control center of organisms. In a nematode, 300 nerve cells are sufficient to initiate complex...

In the future, the clothes you wear could be made from sugar. Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology...

A new discovery suggests it could one day be possible to chemically reprogram and repair damaged nerves after spinal cord...

A Japanese government-funded laboratory says it has found data in a widely heralded stem-cell research paper was falsified, holding one...

The code for every gene includes a message at the end of it that signals the translation machinery to stop....

A newborn baby, for all its cooing cuddliness, is a data acquisition machine, absorbing information to finish honing the job...

Bioengineers have grown living skeletal muscle that looks a lot like the real thing. It contracts powerfully and rapidly, integrates...

Scientists at The University of Nottingham have developed a new substance which could simplify the manufacture of cell therapy in...

Medical engineers said Sunday they had created a device the size of a plaster which can monitor patients by tracking...

Cybathlon, a Swiss-hosted Olympics for bionic athletes, will be held in October 2016.The Cybathlon is a championship for racing pilots...