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Using tiny gold particles and a kind of resin, a team of scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has discovered how to make a...

As a cell’s central power plant, the mitochondrion is a busy place. Specially-coded proteins from the nucleus are constantly being ferried across the mitochondrion’s inner...

Doris Taylor doesn't take it as an insult when people call her Dr Frankenstein. “It was actually one of the bigger compliments I've gotten,” she...

Researchers at Princeton University have grown a bionic ear that can pick up radio waves and translate them into sound. A bionic ear rests in...

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...