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The White House unveiled a sweeping new initiative on Tuesday to map the individual cells and circuits that make up...

The term "survival of the fittest" refers to natural selection in biological systems, but Darwin's theory may apply more broadly...

The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced  that it was awarded a $9.25 million contract from...

A team of Stanford University bioengineers has taken computing beyond mechanics and electronics into the living realm of biology. They...

Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from...

Thirty years ago, the future lay in programming computers. Today, it’s programming cells. That was the message of panelists at...

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...