Better diagnosis and treatment of cancer could hinge on the ability to better understand a single cell at its molecular ...

  The genome of an extinct Australian frog has been revived and reactivated by a team of scientists using sophisticated ...

  Bioengineers at the University of Pittsburgh will develop an artificial lung to serve as a bridge to transplant or ...

Scientists have accurately calculated the sliding mechanism for deciphering the second genetic code written within the DNA base pair sequence. ...

Some diseases are caused by single gene mutations. Current techniques for identifying the disease-causing gene in a patient produce hundreds ...

A letter by Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, outlining the Nobel Prize-winning achievement to his young son is expected ...

Researchers have determined a way to predict and protect against new strains of the flu virus, in the hope of ...

The cyanobacterium Synechocystis produces toxins that often lead to its own demise. The biologists Stefan Kopfmann and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang ...

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen is a research university of international renown with strong focuses in research-led teaching. The University is distinguished by the ...

Researchers at the International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (aka, BIOFAB) have just announced that they have, in effect, established rules ...

Bioengineering researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara have found that changing the shape of chemotherapy drug nanoparticles from spherical ...

  For the first time, scientists have transplanted neural cells derived from a monkey's skin into its brain and watched ...

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 ...