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Bacteria on a surface wander around and often organize into highly resilient communities known as biofilms. It turns out that...

Scientists have long known that control mechanisms known collectively as "epigenetics" play a critical role in human development, but they...

Humacyte, Inc., announced the accomplishment of significant milestones in the clinical development of its innovative bioengineered blood vessel technology –...

A protein from bovine blood can keep gold nanoparticles from clumping in a solution—a discovery that could lead to improved...

From the chimera in Greek mythology to the sphinx in ancient Egypt, humans have imagined making creatures from pieces of...

MIT engineers have transformed bacterial cells into living calculators that can compute logarithms, divide, and take square roots, using three...

Zhenan Bao, a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford, has developed a heart monitor thinner than a dollar bill and...

Development of a sophisticated artificial pancreas holds potential to transform the lives of patients with Type 1 diabetes.Type 1 diabetes...

The Board of Trustees of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) has chosen Dr. Josep Samitier as the center’s...

Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) have successfully reprogrammed human skin...

It’s a familiar scenario – a patient receives a medical implant and days later, the body attacks the artificial valve...

When cells suffer too much DNA damage, they are usually forced to undergo programmed cell death, or apoptosis. However, cancer...

Your brain often works on autopilot when it comes to grammar. That theory has been around for years, but University...

Genes make up about 2 percent of the human genome. The rest consists of a genetic material known as noncoding...