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Scientists have devised a method for more precisely determining the geographical location of a person's ancestral origins based on a...

A burger grown in a laboratory. Sounds like science-fiction? Well up until very recently it probably was but now the...

Researchers at MIT, Harvard, and Seoul National University have created a robotic worm. “So what?” you ask. They’re also making...

Our ability to “read” DNA has made tremendous progress in the past few decades, but the ability to understand and...

Bioengineers looking to turn microbes into manufacturers have longed for a kit of components as regular and predictable as those...

The method devised by Professor Tsuji’s team involves reconstructing hair follicle germs from adult epithelial stem cells and cultured dermal...

Researchers led by Evgeny Katz, the Milton Kerker Chaired Professor of Colloid Science at Clarkson University, have implanted a biofuel...

Researchers have remotely activated genes inside living animals, a proof of concept that could one day lead to medical procedures...

Once the preserve of science fiction, increasingly sophisticated robotic devices are vying for a place side by side with humans...

Other researchers are developing prosthetic skin which might wrap around a bionic limb and feed back sensory information to the...

Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke...

With the relentless rise of DNA nanotechnology's popularity, Emma Davies explores the role chemistry has played in its success As...

On the grand scale of things, we know so very little about the brain. Our thick-headedness isn’t quite cosmological in...

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned a benign virus into an engineering tool for assembling structures that...

A strain of genetically enhanced bacteria developed by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies may pave the way...

New technology from MIT and Harvard can edit DNA at the genome scale, giving cells novel functions. MIT and Harvard...

Chinese scientists have produced a herd of bioengineered cows that make milk that could substitute for human breast milk --...

The robotic exoskeleton eLegs could be a game changer for spinal cord injury rehabilitation

  As engineers begin to build tiny aircraft for tasks such as military-related surveillance and post-disaster search, they are turning...

A pathway whereby bacteria communicate with each other has been discovered by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The...