The Microdevice Design Research Assistant IV will perform research and collaborate with Institute faculty, staff, fellow and students in the ...

In a significant advance for the growing field of synthetic biology, Rice University bioengineers have created a toolkit of genes ...

ZENBU, a new, freely available bioinformatics tool developed at the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technology in Japan, enables researchers ...

Massey University scientists have discovered a universal law that explains how hybrid species survive and thrive. Massey University computational biologist ...

For the first time, researchers have shown that an essential biological process known as protein synthesis can be studied in ...

Brains are the most powerful computers known. Now microchips built to mimic insects’ nervous systems have been shown to successfully ...

MIT spinout Meka Robotics, recently acquired by Google, creates ‘sociable’ humanoids that could help advance human-robot interaction. Are we on ...

Neural development is an extremely complex and highly orchestrated process, involving genetic cascades during which dozens of genes are activated ...

The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is taking proposals from researchers interested in working on using “risky, novel approaches” to ...

There's promising news from the front on efforts to produce fuels through artificial photosynthesis. A new study by Berkeley Lab ...

In end-stage lung disease, transplantation is sometimes the only viable therapeutic option, but organ availability is limited and rejection presents ...

How does an autistic child take in information when he sits in a classroom abuzz with social activity? How long ...

When swimming around, bacteria aren't good with the "pool rules." In small quantities, they'll follow the lanes, but put enough ...

3-D printing used to construct everything from art to toys to spare parts for the space station may one day ...

Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified an important step toward potentially shutting down the growth of prostate cancer ...

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and Vanderbilt University have created the most detailed 3-D picture yet of a ...

Jason Barnes's prosthetic arm will let him live his drumming dream in his first gig this month – but it ...

Like a silent bionic army, the era of the cyborg has crept upon us. Like a silent bionic army, the ...

A novel approach to cancer immunotherapy – strategies designed to induce the immune system to attack cancer cells – may ...

How do we “know” from the movements of speeding car in our field of view if it’s coming straight toward ...