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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...

A class of drugs that includes treatments for breast cancer and infertility appears able to inhibit the deadly, incurable Ebola virus, new research suggests. As...

In a study that could change the way scientists view the process of protein production in humans, University of Chicago researchers have found a single...

This tiny telescope gets implanted in one eye and magnifies the image to make up for "holes" in the person's vision. It can greatly improve...

It is nothing short of a world record in DNA research that scientists at the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark...

There’s not much difference between what makes a man and what makes his beer - at least at the molecular level - according to a...

Mouse fetuses will give up stem cells to repair their mother's heart. The discovery could explain why half the women who develop heart weakness during...

Theodore Berger of the University of Southern California is developing a prosthesis to restore memory, by replacing a circuit in the brain's hippocampus. Berger described...

Synthetic biology researchers at Northwestern University, working with partners at Harvard Medical School, have for the first time synthesized ribosomes – cell structures responsible for...

Circulating blood cells collected from the tail of a donor mouse were used to produce the clone, a team at the Riken BioResource Center reports...