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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...

Genetic tests can offer deep insights into your future health. But would you really want to know?

The University of Exeter has announced plans to build a research centre to develop strategies for diagnosing and treating diseases. It is hoped that the...

Some people dress up their pets in clothes so that they will look more like their human owners. Turns out, a similar thing happens in...

Biongineers from the universities of Sheffield and Sussex are planning on scanning the brains of bees and uploading them into autonomous flying robots that will...

For their pioneering work on developing a bionic eye, two University of New South Wales (UNSW) engineers have been honoured with a prestigious research achievement...

Bioengineers have developed a prototype ultra-sensitive sensor that would enable doctors to detect the early stages of diseases and viruses with the naked eye, according...

In a bioengineering laboratory at Stanford University, Christopher Contag, a microbiologist, is designing new approaches to “virtual” pathology.

In an extremely exciting find, scientists at Aarhus University in Denmark found a type of bacteria that creates electrical currents on the sea floor. Despite...

A new regulator for heart formation has been discovered by studying how embryonic stem cells adjust the packaging of their DNA.

DNA-based imaging, computer models map cell-to-neighbor-cell organizationFrom the surface looking into a clear body of water everything from the water’s depth to its marine environment...

Bacteria in your gut may be influencing your thoughts and moods, raising the possibility that probiotics could be used to treat psychiatric illnesses

Kevin Warwick is most certainly the preeminent cyborg of our time. More than a decade ago he implanted an RFID chip in himself to control...

Meet Junghae Suh, an assistant professor of bioengineering, who develops virus nanoparticles to transport DNA-based technologies for the treatment of diseases.

Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have received a $9.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a single-cell genomics...