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 ...

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 ...