BIOENGINEER.ORG

Credit: The Dartmouth Institute Over the past decade, hip-hop music has become a world-wide phenomenon and, in 2017, surpassed rock as the biggest music genre...

AKRON, OH - Oct. 15, 2018 - Jie Zheng, Ph.D., a chemical and biomolecular engineering professor at The University of Akron (UA), recently received a...

RNA has long been the neglected middle child of biomolecules, the go-between between DNA, which encodes the cell's instructions, and proteins, which carry them out....

Credit: Manu Prakash Almost eight years ago, Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash was looking for a way to watch every cell in an adult living,...

Credit: Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services Did prehistoric sea creatures called mosasaurs subdue prey by ramming them with their bony snouts like killer whales do...

Credit: Kasper Røjkjær Andersen, Simon Kelly and Simona Radutoiu. In the fairy tale "Goldilock and the Three Bears", the girl Goldilock goes to the bears'...

Credit: (Photo: Gunnar Brehm/FSU Jena) Jena, Germany (12.10.18) Researchers from three universities have measured more than 19,000 tropical moths from 1,100 species to find out...

Credit: Andrew Hendry Are human disturbances to the environment driving evolutionary changes in animals and plants? A new study conducted by McGill researchers finds that,...

Premature birth is the leading cause of infant death and disability in the U.S., and costs billions in dollars and heartache every year. Now, University...

Changing the way microbes are classified can reveal similarities among mammals' gut microbiomes, according to a new study. The study, published in mBio, proposed an...

Credit: UC San Diego Health Tamara Strauss has been living with high-grade, stage IV pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer for more than three years. Current treatments, although...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center CDK1 is a "normal" protein - its presence drives cells through the cycle of replication. And MHC Class I...

A new large-scale hydroeconomic model, developed by the Water Program at IIASA, will allow researchers to study water systems across whole continents, looking at sustainability...

Credit: Marco-Alexis Chaira Tempe, Ariz. - Two Arizona State University professors are among the first recipients of Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE) grants from the...

Urban farmers growing vegetables to feed millions of people in Africa's ever-growing cities could unwittingly be helping to spread disease by irrigating crops with wastewater,...