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Only three months after she became the youngest person to receive a bioengineered organ, two-year-old Hannah Warren has died. In...

Chemists from North Carolina State University have performed a DNA-based logic-gate operation within a human cell. The research may pave...

International team will synthesise genome of brewer's yeast with a view to creating strains that make biofuel, vaccines and drugs...

A collaborative formed by Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, has found full genome sequencing examining...

A new combination of tissue engineering techniques could reduce the need for nerve grafts, according to new research by The...

Among the increasingly valuable roles fungi are playing in the biotechnology industry is their ability to produce enzymes capable of...

Two men with HIV have been off AIDS drugs for several months after receiving stem-cell transplants for cancer that appear...

Using tiny gold particles and a kind of resin, a team of scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has...

As a cell’s central power plant, the mitochondrion is a busy place. Specially-coded proteins from the nucleus are constantly being...

Doris Taylor doesn't take it as an insult when people call her Dr Frankenstein. “It was actually one of the...

Researchers at Princeton University have grown a bionic ear that can pick up radio waves and translate them into sound....

Swedish and Spanish engineers have created a system of sensors that detects fruit odours more effectively than the human sense...

It has finally been done: A team of US and Finnish bioengineers have embedded an antenna, radio receiver, control circuitry,...

The Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved use of a label for meat...

New research from Western University unravels a novel means of communication that allows bacteria such as Burkholderia cenocepacia (B. cenocepacia)...

Researchers report that they have found a direct genetic link between the remains of Native Americans who lived thousands of...

Japanese scientists announced a major advance in regenerative medicine Wednesday after rudimentary liver ‘buds’ that were grown in a lab...

A class of drugs that includes treatments for breast cancer and infertility appears able to inhibit the deadly, incurable Ebola...

In a study that could change the way scientists view the process of protein production in humans, University of Chicago...

This tiny telescope gets implanted in one eye and magnifies the image to make up for "holes" in the person's...