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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned a benign virus into an engineering tool for assembling structures that ...

A strain of genetically enhanced bacteria developed by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies may pave the way ...

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New technology from MIT and Harvard can edit DNA at the genome scale, giving cells novel functions. MIT and Harvard ...

Chinese scientists have produced a herd of bioengineered cows that make milk that could substitute for human breast milk -- ...

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A pathway whereby bacteria communicate with each other has been discovered by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The ...

Harvard University neurobiologists have created mice that can "smell" light, providing a potent new tool that could help researchers better ...