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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...

The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Sony DADC announced a collaboration that will harness Sony...

  Tübingen and Saarland researchers identify the molecules allowing mice to sniff out the genes of other mice.  

  Rice University researchers have found a way to divide and modify enzymes to create what amounts to a genetic...

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have helped explain how the brain keeps track of the incredibly rich...

Genetically engineered immune cells can drive an aggressive type of leukaemia into retreat, a small clinical trial suggests.

The United Kingdom moved a step closer to legalizing reproductive gene therapy techniques that could prevent children from inheriting certain...

Better diagnosis and treatment of cancer could hinge on the ability to better understand a single cell at its molecular...

  The genome of an extinct Australian frog has been revived and reactivated by a team of scientists using sophisticated...

  Bioengineers at the University of Pittsburgh will develop an artificial lung to serve as a bridge to transplant or...

Scientists have accurately calculated the sliding mechanism for deciphering the second genetic code written within the DNA base pair sequence....

Some diseases are caused by single gene mutations. Current techniques for identifying the disease-causing gene in a patient produce hundreds...

A letter by Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, outlining the Nobel Prize-winning achievement to his young son is expected...

Researchers have determined a way to predict and protect against new strains of the flu virus, in the hope of...

The cyanobacterium Synechocystis produces toxins that often lead to its own demise. The biologists Stefan Kopfmann and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang...

Researchers at the International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (aka, BIOFAB) have just announced that they have, in effect, established rules...

Bioengineering researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara have found that changing the shape of chemotherapy drug nanoparticles from spherical...

  For the first time, scientists have transplanted neural cells derived from a monkey's skin into its brain and watched...

Despite many remarkable discoveries in the field of neuroscience during the past several decades, researchers have not been able to...