Each cell in an organism has a sensor that measures the health of its "internal" environment. This "alarm" is found...

A duo of scientists at Penn State University has achieved a major milestone in understanding how genomic "dark matter" originates....

Two years ago, Anthony Atala took to the stage at TED and showed the world that human organs could be...

A diverse team of researchers from the U.S., China, and Singapore has created a patch that when glued to the...

European scientists, led by researchers from the University of Geneva’s Faculty of Medicine (UNIGE) in the GEUVADIS project, present a...

A South Side native’s $6.5 million donation to the University of Illinois at Chicago bioengineering department will fund new ways...

University of Utah bioengineers discovered our understanding of language may depend more heavily on vision than previously thought: under the...

Research from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio suggests the exciting...

Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common...

Creating energy solutions for communities throughout the world poses serious challenges, but a group of undergraduates thinks its idea might...

The Suzanne and Walter Scott, Jr. Bioengineering Building, the newest addition to the Colorado State University campus, will celebrate its...

Synthetic biologist Matthew Chang at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has armed Escherichia coli bacteria with a ‘seek and kill’...

In a long-awaited finding, a team of Chinese and US scientists has determined the high-resolution atomic structure of a cell-surface...

Researchers have reprogrammed adult mouse cells to behave like embryonic stem cells, without the need for a stay in a...