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 ...

  Scientists have long been dreaming about building a computer that would work like a brain. This is because a ...

The body’s immune system exists to identify and destroy foreign objects, whether they are bacteria, viruses, flecks of dirt or ...

Bioengineers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have successfully generated human kidney cells from human embryonic stem cells ...

  Running cockroaches start to recover from being shoved sideways before their dawdling nervous system kicks in to tell their ...

For years researchers have been searching for a way to treat diabetics by reactivating their insulin-producing beta cells, with limited ...

For the first time an operation has been conducted, at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, where electrodes have been permanently implanted in ...

  Humanity came one step closer in January to being able to replicate itself, thanks to the EU’s approval of ...

  Two genetically engineered farm animals reported  illustrate how far from Frankenstein’s stitched-together monster animal biotechnology has come. One of ...

  University of California, San Diego bioengineers have demonstrated in a study in pigs that a new injectable hydrogel can ...

Cornell bioengineers and physicians have created an artificial ear that looks and acts like a natural ear, giving new hope ...