Despite many remarkable discoveries in the field of neuroscience during the past several decades, researchers have not been able to...

An air-breathing bio-battery has been constructed by researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences...

Glial cells -- a family of cells found in the human central nervous system and, until recently, considered mere "housekeepers"...

The veined wing of the clanger cicada kills bacteria solely through its physical structure — one of the first natural...

The flip of a single molecular switch helps create the mature neuronal connections that allow the brain to bridge the...

The Rice lab of bioengineer Ka-Yiu San is part of a recently announced $25 million United States Department of Agriculture...

  The discovery and analysis of an extremely rare African American Y chromosome pushes back the time of the most...

National Taiwan University is a national co-educational research university located in Taipei, Taiwan. In Taiwan, it is colloquially known as...

A "Google Map" model of human metabolism has been produced by an international team of bioengineers, offering "improved predictive capability"...

A team of researchers from UMass Medical School, the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and the University of Mississippi Medical Center...

A study published today in the journal Nature reports that a viral predator of the cholera bacteria has stolen the...

In a significant advance for brain-machine interfaces, engineers at Brown University have developed a novel wireless, broadband, rechargeable, fully implantable...

For the first time, scientists have shown that transplanted eyes located far outside the head in a vertebrate animal model...

Fat worms confirm that researchers from Michigan State University have successfully bioengineered a plant with oily leaves ­– a feat...