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In the middle of the South Atlantic, there’s a patch of sea almost devoid of life. There are no birds,...

Last summer, in a Harvard robotics laboratory, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paper clip, weighing less...

Scientists have accurately calculated the sliding mechanism for deciphering the second genetic code written within the DNA base pair sequence....

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

Scientists have devised a method for more precisely determining the geographical location of a person's ancestral origins based on a...

Our ability to “read” DNA has made tremendous progress in the past few decades, but the ability to understand and...

Other researchers are developing prosthetic skin which might wrap around a bionic limb and feed back sensory information to the...

Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke...

With the relentless rise of DNA nanotechnology's popularity, Emma Davies explores the role chemistry has played in its success As...

On the grand scale of things, we know so very little about the brain. Our thick-headedness isn’t quite cosmological in...

A pathway whereby bacteria communicate with each other has been discovered by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The...

Harvard University neurobiologists have created mice that can "smell" light, providing a potent new tool that could help researchers better...

Scientists in Hong Kong and the United States have mapped hundreds of thousands of DNA code variations spread across the...

Biomimicry – technological innovation inspired by nature – is one of the hottest ideas in science but has yet to...

Claudia Mitchell, who lives in Ellicott City, is the fourth person — and first woman — to receive a “bionic”...

A man has enjoyed his first real dinner in nine years after a pioneering operation to rebuild his jaw using...

"We're going to be able to write DNA. What do we want to say?" Professor Drew Endy of biological engineering...

MIT researchers and colleagues have released the first draft of the dog genome sequence, which could aid the characterization of...

Bioengineers report a new approach to creating three-dimensional samples of human tissue that could push researchers closer to their ultimate...

DNA makes RNA makes protein. In retrospect, it couldn't be clearer. But to Alexander Rich and the other pioneers trying...