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MIT engineers have transformed bacterial cells into living calculators that can compute logarithms, divide, and take square roots, using three...

Zhenan Bao, a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford, has developed a heart monitor thinner than a dollar bill and...

Development of a sophisticated artificial pancreas holds potential to transform the lives of patients with Type 1 diabetes.Type 1 diabetes...

The Board of Trustees of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) has chosen Dr. Josep Samitier as the center’s...

Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) have successfully reprogrammed human skin...

It’s a familiar scenario – a patient receives a medical implant and days later, the body attacks the artificial valve...

When cells suffer too much DNA damage, they are usually forced to undergo programmed cell death, or apoptosis. However, cancer...

Your brain often works on autopilot when it comes to grammar. That theory has been around for years, but University...

Genes make up about 2 percent of the human genome. The rest consists of a genetic material known as noncoding...

The US team fitted two rats with devices called brain-to-brain interfaces that let the animals collaborate on simple tasks to...

Two Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers — a stem cell biologist and a practicing cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s...

Although there are medications that can compensate for the loss of female sex hormone production, the drugs are often not...

In the middle of the South Atlantic, there’s a patch of sea almost devoid of life. There are no birds,...

Georgia Tech engineers and Emory University clinicians have successfully engrafted insulin-producing cells into a diabetic mouse model, reversing diabetic symptoms...

The sun provides the most abundant source of energy on the planet. However, only a tiny fraction of the solar...

Researchers have turned conventional DVDs into portable and cheap diagnostic tools for developing countries, and are now adapting their prototype...

The David H. Murdock Research Institute in Kannapolis received a $50 million gift Wednesday from its founder, David Murdock. The...

Bioengineered spider protein could be the start of a new generation of anti-venom vaccines, potentially saving thousands of lives worldwide....

Society is increasingly becoming more data-driven. Noting the power of vast reservoirs of public information, the federal government launched the...

University of Washington engineers and NanoFacture, a Bellevue, Wash., company, have created a device that can extract human DNA from...