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Rex’s (short for robotic exoskeleton) creators say he is the most complete bionic man to date. Altogether, scientists can now replicate a good portion of...

By studying hand motions, Maurice Smith is creating an instruction manual to help repair a broken-down brain

  Dr. Todd Coleman is getting big attention for his work with wireless sensors the size of tiny temporary tattoos.Coleman is an associate professor of...

By reproducing in the laboratory the complex interactions that cause human genes to turn on inside cells, Duke University bioengineers have created a system they...

A team of researchers from Scotland has used a novel 3D printing technique to arrange human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) for the very first time.

Scientists report that they have developed a method that cuts down the time it takes to make new ‘parts’ for microscopic biological factories from 2...

Scientists are learning how to turn neurons on and off at will by shining light into caverns of the mind, a technique that someday might...

  Anew finding by Harvard stem cell biologists turns one of the basics of neurobiology on its head by demonstrating that it is possible to...

Researchers at MIT, the Broad Institute and Rockefeller University have developed a new technique for precisely altering the genomes of living cells by adding or...

Protein engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have tapped into a hidden talent of one of nature's most versatile catalysts. The enzyme cytochrome...

The human body contains immune cells programmed to fight cancer and viral infections, but they often have short lifespans and are not numerous enough to...

UC San Diego bioengineers have dashed the hopes of scientists looking for an easy way to determine how genes are turned off and on by...

A five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to Tufts University will help launch an interdisciplinary graduate program to enable scientists and engineers to create...

  Bioengineers at ETH Zurich developed a new synthesis procedure for a catalyst. This procedure may be used for the large-scale production of, for instance,...

If you ever need to isolate a single bacterial cell, why not build it a prison cell? This is the approach that Bryan Kaehr and...