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 ...

A duo of scientists at Penn State University has achieved a major milestone in understanding how genomic "dark matter" originates. ...

Two years ago, Anthony Atala took to the stage at TED and showed the world that human organs could be ...

A diverse team of researchers from the U.S., China, and Singapore has created a patch that when glued to the ...

European scientists, led by researchers from the University of Geneva’s Faculty of Medicine (UNIGE) in the GEUVADIS project, present a ...

A South Side native’s $6.5 million donation to the University of Illinois at Chicago bioengineering department will fund new ways ...

University of Utah bioengineers discovered our understanding of language may depend more heavily on vision than previously thought: under the ...

Research from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio suggests the exciting ...

Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common ...

Creating energy solutions for communities throughout the world poses serious challenges, but a group of undergraduates thinks its idea might ...

The Suzanne and Walter Scott, Jr. Bioengineering Building, the newest addition to the Colorado State University campus, will celebrate its ...

Synthetic biologist Matthew Chang at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has armed Escherichia coli bacteria with a ‘seek and kill’ ...

In a long-awaited finding, a team of Chinese and US scientists has determined the high-resolution atomic structure of a cell-surface ...