Newly detected ‘energy-clustering’ structures inside rare-earth nanoparticles generate intense violet light, which is ideal for studying photon-induced transformations A novel ...

Scientists showed that people who have a variant of a longevity gene, called KLOTHO, have improved brain skills such as ...

Scientists from the University of the Philippines, Los Baños have discovered a new plant species with an unusual lifestyle — ...

Researchers at Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center have published results from a study in Cell Reports that discovers a new ...

Bacteria and moulds are vital to the ripening and aroma of many cheeses. Scientists from the Institute for Milk Hygiene, ...

Proteins are responsible for nearly every essential process of life. Their form and structure (or their ”fold”) are of crucial ...

After cancer spreads, finding and destroying malignant cells that circulate in the body is usually critical to patient survival. Now, ...

Researchers at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have discovered that some immune cells turn ...

Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a 3D-printed device inspired by the liver to remove dangerous ...

Researchers have devised a novel cancer treatment that destroys tumor cells by first disarming their defenses, then hitting them with ...

Programming living cells offers the prospect of harnessing sophisticated biological machinery for transformative applications in energy, agriculture, water remediation and ...

When you get sick, your physician may take a sample of your blood, send it to the lab and wait ...

Adults suffering from diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood-related disorders may benefit from life-saving treatment commonly used in ...

A smartphone app that monitors subtle qualities of a person's voice during everyday phone conversations shows promise for detecting early ...

Melbourne researchers have overturned a 40-year-old theory on when and how cells divide, showing that 'parent' cells program a cell ...

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have engineered a bacterium whose genetic material includes an added pair of DNA ...

Cells have to protect themselves: against damage in their genetic material for one thing, but also against attack from the ...

For the first time ever, a group of Danish and Chinese researchers has sequenced the genome of the spider. This ...

Bioengineers at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the University of Montreal have used DNA to develop a tool ...

Rice University bioengineers have created a hydrogel that instantly turns from liquid to semisolid at close to body temperature – ...