Scientists routinely seek to reprogram bacteria to produce proteins for drugs, biofuels and more, but they have struggled to get ...

Our brains give us the remarkable ability to make sense of situations we've never encountered before -- a familiar person ...

Chemists from Nijmegen have developed a catalyst that binds to DNA, slides over it and splits the molecule in particular ...

Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that weeks of treatment with a repurposed FDA-approved drug halted the growth ...

Your smartphone now can see what the naked eye cannot: A single virus and bits of material less than one-thousandth ...

A new research group within Facebook is working on an emerging and powerful approach to artificial intelligence known as deep ...

Scientists have moved closer to developing a universal flu vaccine after using the 2009 pandemic as a natural experiment to ...

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) discovered that an antibody that binds and neutralizes HIV likely also targets the ...

With a few flicks of a light switch--on-off-on-off--Stanford University's Oscar Abilez is one step closer to changing the lives of ...

Weizmann Institute scientists show that removing one protein from adult cells enables them to efficiently turn back the clock to ...

The toxoplasma parasite can be deadly, causing spontaneous abortion in pregnant women or killing immune-compromised patients, but it has even ...

A lens invented at The Ohio State University combines the focusing ability of a human eye with the wide-angle view ...

Google has launched a mysterious new project called Calico. It's "a new company focused on health and well-being, in particular ...

A new technique that allows scientists to measure the electrical activity in the communication junctions of the nervous systems has ...

A team of researchers led by King's College London has for the first time identified a new gene which may ...

Drew Endy is being chosen as a White House Champion of Change for the vision he has demonstrated and for ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a revolutionary new method for identifying and characterizing antibiotics, an ...

Scientists have succeeded in growing stem cells that have the ability to develop into two different types of cells that ...

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