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For the first time, scientists reporting in Nature Medicine have created lab-grown kidneys in rats that produce urine after transplantation. 

The creation of the first complete visual map of the telomerase enzyme, which is known to play a significant role...

  The stunning video embedded in this post illustrates a new way of looking at the brain. Scientists at Stanford...

  Using a miniature electronic device implanted in the brain, scientists have tapped into the internal reward system of mice,...

  A new separation process that depends on an easily-distinguished physical difference in adhesive forces among cells could help expand...

At some point, scientists may be able to bring back extinct animals, and perhaps early humans, raising questions of ethics...

In what might be the first documented case of technologically-assisted interspecies telepathy, an international team of researchers has successfully created...

Aluminum salts, or alum, have been injected into billions of people as an adjuvant to make vaccines more effective. No...

Researchers from NTNU's Kavli Institute of Systems Neuroscience are able to see which cells communicate with each other in the...

  A custom-built programmable 3D printer can create materials with several of the properties of living tissues, Oxford University scientists...

A team of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered a way to extract large quantities of hydrogen from any plant, a...

In a new discovery that represents a major step in solving a critical design challenge, Arizona State University Professor Hao...

The White House unveiled a sweeping new initiative on Tuesday to map the individual cells and circuits that make up...

The term "survival of the fittest" refers to natural selection in biological systems, but Darwin's theory may apply more broadly...

The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced  that it was awarded a $9.25 million contract from...

A team of Stanford University bioengineers has taken computing beyond mechanics and electronics into the living realm of biology. They...

Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from...

Thirty years ago, the future lay in programming computers. Today, it’s programming cells. That was the message of panelists at...

Previous hypotheses about the origin of these olfactory nerve cells have given credit to embryonic cells that develop into skin...

UCLA bioengineering professor Wentai Liu, more than two decades of visionary research burst into the headlines last month when the...