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Plants could soon have robotic counterparts. Barbara Mazzolai from the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa and colleagues are creating...

Nearly all the plastics sold today come from petroleum and aren’t biodegradable. But researchers at Metabolix in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are...

Recent advances in optogenetics have opened the possibility of restoring light sensitivity to vision cells using a simple injection and...

The FDA-approved Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System from Second Sight Medical Products transmits images from a small, eye-glass-mounted camera wirelessly...

Tiny sensors and motors are everywhere, telling your smartphone screen to rotate and your camera to focus. Now, a team...

For the first time, scientists have directly observed events that lead to the formation of a chromosome abnormality that is...

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, connected to each other in networks that allow us to interpret the world...

High school students in a Stanford bioengineering boot camp tackled real-world projects, such as using sensors to ensure that surgeons...

Ten years ago, scientists announced the end of the Human Genome Project, the international attempt to learn which combination of...

Scientists from IBM unveiled a software ecosystem designed for programming silicon chips that have an architecture inspired by the function,...

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have decoded an important molecular signal that guides the development of a key...

Scientists discover previously unknown thermal sensor in insects linked to taste, smell.Call it the Goldilocks Principle — animals can survive...

A RIKEN research team has discovered an enzyme called Rines that regulates MAO-A, a major brain protein controlling emotion and...

The world's first lab-grown burger is to be unveiled and eaten at a news conference in London on Monday. Scientists...