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Should we bring back extinct species?
At some point, scientists may be able to bring back extinct animals, and perhaps early humans, raising questions of ethics...
New Interface Allows Humans to Move a Rat’s Tail With Their Thoughts
In what might be the first documented case of technologically-assisted interspecies telepathy, an international team of researchers has successfully created...
Vaccine Adjuvant Uses Host DNA to Boost Pathogen Recognition
Aluminum salts, or alum, have been injected into billions of people as an adjuvant to make vaccines more effective. No...
A ‘Light Switch’ in Brain Illuminates Neural Networks
Researchers from NTNU's Kavli Institute of Systems Neuroscience are able to see which cells communicate with each other in the...
3-D Printer Can Build Synthetic Tissues
A custom-built programmable 3D printer can create materials with several of the properties of living tissues, Oxford University scientists...
Breakthrough in Hydrogen Fuel Production
A team of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered a way to extract large quantities of hydrogen from any plant, a...
DNA origami takes a fresh direction
In a new discovery that represents a major step in solving a critical design challenge, Arizona State University Professor Hao...
Obama launches research initiative to study human brain
The White House unveiled a sweeping new initiative on Tuesday to map the individual cells and circuits that make up...
Similarities Between Genetic and Computer Codes
The term "survival of the fittest" refers to natural selection in biological systems, but Darwin's theory may apply more broadly...
Artificial Spleen to Treat Bloodstream Infections
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced that it was awarded a $9.25 million contract from...
Biological Transistor Enables Computing Within Living Cells
A team of Stanford University bioengineers has taken computing beyond mechanics and electronics into the living realm of biology. They...
Bio-Batteries
Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from...
Making living matter programmable
Thirty years ago, the future lay in programming computers. Today, it’s programming cells. That was the message of panelists at...
Devoloping Sense of Smell
Previous hypotheses about the origin of these olfactory nerve cells have given credit to embryonic cells that develop into skin...
Bioengineer invents bionic eye to help the blind
UCLA bioengineering professor Wentai Liu, more than two decades of visionary research burst into the headlines last month when the...
Harvard and Sony collaborate for Organs-on-Chips
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Sony DADC announced a collaboration that will harness Sony...
Smelling Genetic Information
Tübingen and Saarland researchers identify the molecules allowing mice to sniff out the genes of other mice.
Researchers divide enzyme to conquer genetic puzzle
Rice University researchers have found a way to divide and modify enzymes to create what amounts to a genetic...
How the brain keeps track of similar but distinct memories.
Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have helped explain how the brain keeps track of the incredibly rich...
Engineered immune cells battle acute leukaemia
Genetically engineered immune cells can drive an aggressive type of leukaemia into retreat, a small clinical trial suggests.