BIOENGINEER.ORG

UNC scientists led by Brian Strahl, PhD, and Raghuvar Dronamraju, Ph.D., uncovered a key regulatory step in gene expression that may be a significant factor...

The discovery in China of fossil specimens of a flower called Nanjinganthus from the Early Jurassic shakes up widely accepted theories of plant evolutionCredit: Fu...

Credit: Johana Goyes Vallejos LAWRENCE -- Stay-at-home dads might find their spirit animal in the smooth guardian frog of Borneo. A new pair of research...

Credit: CNIO Myelofibrosis is a severe and very rare haematological disease for which treatment has only been partially effective to date. Its low incidence rate...

Researchers found that widespread, low-intensity use of antibiotics may play more of a role in antibiotic resistance than high-intensity, repeated use by a small fraction...

Credit: KU Leuven - Rob Stevens Companies are keen to use miniature chemical reactors to make pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals, but are discouraged by their...

Anxiety claim lines rose over 200 percent, FAIR Health study showsCredit: FAIR Health NEW YORK, NY--December 18, 2018--Private insurance claim lines for amphetamine use, abuse...

Credit: Andy Dittman/Northwest Fisheries Science Center The ability to smell is critical for salmon. They depend on scent to avoid predators, sniff out prey and...

Penn study identifies chain reaction in cells that helps cancer survive treatments that target BRAF mutationsCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Drugs that target BRAF and...

Credit: VanBlargan et al./Cell Reports A group of researchers led by Michael Diamond of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a...

Scientists have deciphered how some types of 'swimming' bacteria have evolved to be able to escape when trapped in small spaces Scientists have deciphered how...

In Afghanistan's most underdeveloped regions, attitudes towards education and child marriage appear to have changed significantly since the overthrow of the Taliban government in 2002,...

Zero TB in Tibetan Kids outreach program aims to eliminate the disease in an entire population in India In a tuberculosis screening and treatment initiative...

Credit: ETH Zurich The rate at which evolution produces new species of plants and animals, or at which existing species die out, is a subject...

A new therapy aimed at improving the sight of people with one of the most common forms of childhood blindness, has shown 'very promising' initial...