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A two-part water-based gel made of synthetic DNA could bring the Heriot-Watt inventors of a 3D bio printer closer to...

On Valentine's Day, people who have been unlucky in love will be said to suffer from a "broken heart." Broken...

Cell cultures used in biology and medical research may not act as a faithful mimic of real tissue, according to...

University of North Carolina scientists have created a new research tool, based on the fruit fly, to help crack the...

Harvesting sunlight is a trick plants mastered more than a billion years ago, using solar energy to feed themselves from...

Imagine printing out molecules that can respond to their surroundings. A research project at the University of Washington merges custom...

Anyone who's ever been to France knows it's a country that celebrates its food and takes enormous pride in not...

A collaborative study led by scientists from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has revealed...

NIBIB-funded researchers have developed a novel 3D vaccine that could provide a more effective way to harness the immune system...

A good drug is hard to design: to garner FDA approval and reach consumers, it must not only effectively treat...

By combining experimental data from X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, cryoelectron microscopy and lipidomics (the study of cellular lipid networks), researchers...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new drug to treat patients with advanced breast cancer, signaling a...

How a brilliant-green sea slug manages to live for months at a time “feeding” on sunlight, like a plant, is...

Many people imagine robots today as clunky, metal versions of humans, but scientists are forging new territory in the field...