Limited availability of fossil fuels stimulates the search for different energy resources. The use of biofuels is one of the...

Researchers have provided the first comprehensive compendium of mutational processes that drive tumour development. Together, these mutational processes explain most...

Not all bioengineers who are using printers in the lab are trying to create tissues or organs. Some are intent...

Called a molecular network diverter, this new switch combines existing biological techniques into a meta-tool that can sense and modulate...

Tough, bioengineered peptide is a major advance in brain tumor imaging that could enable more precise surgical removal.In a breakthrough...

Winners awarded for diagnostics, therapeutics, and technologies for underserved populations. Three teams were announced as winners in the Design by...

Rice University researchers adapted a computer algorithm to find the parts of two distantly related adeno-associated viruses that could be...

Plants could soon have robotic counterparts. Barbara Mazzolai from the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa and colleagues are creating...

Nearly all the plastics sold today come from petroleum and aren’t biodegradable. But researchers at Metabolix in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are...

Recent advances in optogenetics have opened the possibility of restoring light sensitivity to vision cells using a simple injection and...

The FDA-approved Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System from Second Sight Medical Products transmits images from a small, eye-glass-mounted camera wirelessly...

Tiny sensors and motors are everywhere, telling your smartphone screen to rotate and your camera to focus. Now, a team...

For the first time, scientists have directly observed events that lead to the formation of a chromosome abnormality that is...