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International team will synthesise genome of brewer's yeast with a view to creating strains that make biofuel, vaccines and drugs Britain's latest bid to embrace...

A collaborative formed by Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, has found full genome sequencing examining the entire DNA code of...

A new combination of tissue engineering techniques could reduce the need for nerve grafts, according to new research by The Open University. Regeneration of nerves...

Among the increasingly valuable roles fungi are playing in the biotechnology industry is their ability to produce enzymes capable of releasing sugars from plants, trees,...

Two men with HIV have been off AIDS drugs for several months after receiving stem-cell transplants for cancer that appear to have cleared the virus...

Using tiny gold particles and a kind of resin, a team of scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has discovered how to make a...

As a cell’s central power plant, the mitochondrion is a busy place. Specially-coded proteins from the nucleus are constantly being ferried across the mitochondrion’s inner...

Doris Taylor doesn't take it as an insult when people call her Dr Frankenstein. “It was actually one of the bigger compliments I've gotten,” she...

Researchers at Princeton University have grown a bionic ear that can pick up radio waves and translate them into sound. A bionic ear rests in...

Swedish and Spanish engineers have created a system of sensors that detects fruit odours more effectively than the human sense of smell. For now, the...

It has finally been done: A team of US and Finnish bioengineers have embedded an antenna, radio receiver, control circuitry, and LED into a wearable...

The Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved use of a label for meat and liquid egg products with...

New research from Western University unravels a novel means of communication that allows bacteria such as Burkholderia cenocepacia (B. cenocepacia) to resist antibiotic treatment. B....

Researchers report that they have found a direct genetic link between the remains of Native Americans who lived thousands of years ago and their living...

Japanese scientists announced a major advance in regenerative medicine Wednesday after rudimentary liver ‘buds’ that were grown in a lab and transplanted into mice showed...