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Researchers have determined a way to predict and protect against new strains of the flu virus, in the hope of improving immunity against the disease....

The cyanobacterium Synechocystis produces toxins that often lead to its own demise. The biologists Stefan Kopfmann and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess from the University of...

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen is a research university of international renown with strong focuses in research-led teaching. The University is distinguished by the rich diversity of its subject...

Researchers at the International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (aka, BIOFAB) have just announced that they have, in effect, established rules for the first language for...

Bioengineering researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara have found that changing the shape of chemotherapy drug nanoparticles from spherical to rod-shaped made them up...

  For the first time, scientists have transplanted neural cells derived from a monkey's skin into its brain and watched the cells develop into several...

Despite many remarkable discoveries in the field of neuroscience during the past several decades, researchers have not been able to fully crack the brain’s “neural...

An air-breathing bio-battery has been constructed by researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The core element...

Glial cells -- a family of cells found in the human central nervous system and, until recently, considered mere "housekeepers" -- now appear to be...

The veined wing of the clanger cicada kills bacteria solely through its physical structure — one of the first natural surfaces found to do so....

The flip of a single molecular switch helps create the mature neuronal connections that allow the brain to bridge the gap between adolescent impressionability and...

The Rice lab of bioengineer Ka-Yiu San is part of a recently announced $25 million United States Department of Agriculture project to develop a new...

  The discovery and analysis of an extremely rare African American Y chromosome pushes back the time of the most recent common ancestor for the...

National Taiwan University is a national co-educational research university located in Taipei, Taiwan. In Taiwan, it is colloquially known as "Táidà". Its 1,086,167 m2 main...

A "Google Map" model of human metabolism has been produced by an international team of bioengineers, offering "improved predictive capability" over its predecessor.