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In the search for renewable alternatives to gasoline, heavy alcohols such as isobutanol are promising candidates. Not only do they...

The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain and build a...

Researchers developed nano-machines which recreate principal activities of proteins. They present the first versatile and modular example of a fully...

The rats sensed the light as a sensation of touch after Duke neurobiologist Miguel Nicolelis and his team fitted the...

Miniaturized laboratory-on-chip systems promise rapid, sensitive, and multiplexed detection of biological samples for medical diagnostics, drug discovery, and high-throughput screening....

Epigenetic changes may be caused by environmental factors, including diet, exposure to contaminants, and social conditions such as poverty—and may...

Researchers are injecting ever more conscious design into their bioengineering workflow.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved what's being called the first bionic eye, which may restore limited vision for...

By thinking of cells as programmable robots, researchers at Rice University hope to someday direct how they grow into the...

USC neuroscientists have isolated chills at a cellular level, identifying the sensory network of neurons in the skin that relays...

Published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, the new study is the first successful attempt to use human induced pluripotent...

Your average musical melody doesn't chug along at a single, mechanical speed. It mixes whole notes, quarter notes, sixteenth notes...

MIT engineers have created genetic circuits in bacterial cells that not only perform logic functions, but also remember the results,...

  A radical new approach to “bionic eye” implants holds out the hope of restoring near-normal sight to the blind,...

Scientists hope that one day in the distant future, miniature, medically-savvy computers will roam our bodies, detecting early-stage diseases and...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC describe in PLoS ONE how an electrode array sitting...

A UT Arlington bioengineer has been awarded a $407,163 National Science Foundation Early Career Development grant to use light and...

Rex’s (short for robotic exoskeleton) creators say he is the most complete bionic man to date. Altogether, scientists can now...

By studying hand motions, Maurice Smith is creating an instruction manual to help repair a broken-down brain

  Dr. Todd Coleman is getting big attention for his work with wireless sensors the size of tiny temporary tattoos.Coleman...