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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...

Iowa – A highly collaborative approach to gathering data spearheaded by Iowa State University faculty and students has revealed new...

Networked nerve cells are the control center of organisms. In a nematode, 300 nerve cells are sufficient to initiate complex...

A new discovery suggests it could one day be possible to chemically reprogram and repair damaged nerves after spinal cord...

A Japanese government-funded laboratory says it has found data in a widely heralded stem-cell research paper was falsified, holding one...

The code for every gene includes a message at the end of it that signals the translation machinery to stop....

A newborn baby, for all its cooing cuddliness, is a data acquisition machine, absorbing information to finish honing the job...

Scientists at The University of Nottingham have developed a new substance which could simplify the manufacture of cell therapy in...