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A central question has been answered regarding a protein that plays an essential role in the bacterial immune system and...

Scientists in Japan showed stem cells can now be made quickly just by dipping blood cells into acid. Stem cells...

Scientists from Berlin and Heidelberg use artificial nerve cells to classify different types of data Thus, they may recognize handwritten...

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has discovered a method of assembling "building blocks" of gold nanoparticles...

Investigators at Johns Hopkins report they have developed human induced-pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) capable of repairing damaged retinal vascular tissue...

MIT neuroscientists have now discovered how two neural circuits in the brain work together to control the formation of such...

The novel biosensor developed by scientists at Rice University in collaboration with colleagues in Thailand and Ireland may make the...

Living cells are ready for their close-ups, thanks to a new imaging technique that needs no dyes or other chemicals,...

The alien world of aquatic micro-organisms just got new residents: synthetic self-propelled swimming bio-bots. A team of engineers has developed...

Like the strings on a violin or the pipes of an organ, the proteins in the human body vibrate in...

For the first time, chemists have successfully produced an artificial cell containing organelles capable of carrying out the various steps...

Ryan Zurakowski, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, is co-author of a paper appearing...

Artificial bone marrow may be used to reproduce hematopoietic stem cells. A prototype has now been developed by scientists of...

The waterproof, light-activated glue developed by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology...