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Synthetic genetic circuitry created by researchers at Rice University is helping them see, for the first time, how to regulate...

When we watch a movie, our brains react to it immediately in a way similar to other people's brains. Researchers...

A major discovery that brings a new drug target to the increasingly exciting landscape of cancer immunotherapy was published yesterday...

A blood sample could one day be enough to diagnose many types of solid cancers, or to monitor the amount...

Skin cells use new molecule to send touch information to the brain. In a study published online today in the...

Chances are you've heard of mapping genes to diagnose rare diseases, predict your risk of cancer and tell your ancestry....

Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have overcome one of the greatest challenges in biology and taken...

A long-standing challenge in synthetic biology has been to create gene circuits that behave in predictable and robust ways. Mathematical...

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Cell Reports and presented today at the American...

A new way to artificially control muscles using light, with the potential to restore function to muscles paralysed by conditions...

Prisoners with HIV fare well with treatment during incarceration, a Yale study has found. The authors write that, with the...

An international team of researchers including University of Melbourne staff has identified the exact biochemical key that awakes the body’s...

Scientists in Russia plan to use DNA - our genetic material - to help them solve one of the perennial...

University of California, San Diego research team led by bioengineer Gert Cauwenberghs is working to understand how the brain circuitry...