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High school students in a Stanford bioengineering boot camp tackled real-world projects, such as using sensors to ensure that surgeons...

Ten years ago, scientists announced the end of the Human Genome Project, the international attempt to learn which combination of...

Scientists from IBM unveiled a software ecosystem designed for programming silicon chips that have an architecture inspired by the function,...

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have decoded an important molecular signal that guides the development of a key...

Scientists discover previously unknown thermal sensor in insects linked to taste, smell.Call it the Goldilocks Principle — animals can survive...

A RIKEN research team has discovered an enzyme called Rines that regulates MAO-A, a major brain protein controlling emotion and...

The world's first lab-grown burger is to be unveiled and eaten at a news conference in London on Monday. Scientists...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating devices out of a water-based hydrogel material...

Researchers have fabricated a bioartificial ear that looks and mechanically behaves like a human one, as revealed in Journal of...

Chemical flasks and inconvenient chemostats for cultivation of bacteria are likely soon to be discarded. Researchers from the Institute of...

Researchers have grown rudimentary teeth out of the most unlikely of sources, human urine.The results, published in Cell Regeneration Journal,...

Heart tissue sustains irreparable damage in the wake of a heart attack. Because cells in the heart cannot multiply and...

Scientists have created a false memory in mice by manipulating neurons that bear the memory of a place. The work...

After an interminable wait, the first brain-boosting tDCS headset has finally received FCC approval and will begin shipping in the...

Genetically modified organism could turn carbon dioxide or waste products into a gasoline-compatible transportation fuel A humble soil bacterium called...

Novel microchips imitate the brain’s information processing in real time. Neuroinformatics researchers from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich...

Hair loss is usually genetically determined but can also be the result of aging or chronic illness. It is often...

Although human cells have an estimated 20,000 genes, only a fraction of those are turned on at any given time,...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a protein that could help physicians decide what type of therapy patients...

You are not just yourself. You are also the thousands of microbes that you carry. In fact, they represent an...