Researchers Figured Out How to Create New Embryos
Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have overcome one of the greatest challenges in biology and taken a major step toward being...
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Math modeling integral to synthetic biology research
A long-standing challenge in synthetic biology has been to create gene circuits that behave in predictable and robust ways. Mathematical modeling experts from the University...
Zombie cancer cells eat themselves to live
A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Cell Reports and presented today at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)...
Light-activated neurons from stem cells restore function to paralysed muscles
A new way to artificially control muscles using light, with the potential to restore function to muscles paralysed by conditions such as motor neuron disease...
DARPA Boosts Funding for All Things Biological
DARPA, the U.S. defense agency devoted to high-risk, high-reward research, has traditionally dedicated its resources to the physical sciences: nuclear bomb test detection, the stealth...
HIV successfully treated in prison and jail
Prisoners with HIV fare well with treatment during incarceration, a Yale study has found. The authors write that, with the lack of accessible community resources,...
Nanotubes made from plants could allow delivery of DNA into cells
Researchers with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences took what some would consider garbage and made a remarkable scientific tool, one...