Introductory chemistry students learn that oil and water repel each other. So do other hydrophobic substances, which carry no electric charge, and hydrophilic substances, which...
Researchers have long searched for a durable artificial heart that can work as efficiently as the one supplied by nature. Now Carmat, a company based...
Spanish researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have found that during the early stages of mammalian development, embryonic cells embark on a...
Scientists have created genetically-engineered mice with artificial human chromosomes in every cell of their bodies, as part of a series of studies showing that it...
Only three months after she became the youngest person to receive a bioengineered organ, two-year-old Hannah Warren has died. In an announcement posted online Monday,...
Chemists from North Carolina State University have performed a DNA-based logic-gate operation within a human cell. The research may pave the way to more complicated...
International team will synthesise genome of brewer's yeast with a view to creating strains that make biofuel, vaccines and drugs Britain's latest bid to embrace...
A collaborative formed by Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, has found full genome sequencing examining the entire DNA code of...
A new combination of tissue engineering techniques could reduce the need for nerve grafts, according to new research by The Open University. Regeneration of nerves...
Among the increasingly valuable roles fungi are playing in the biotechnology industry is their ability to produce enzymes capable of releasing sugars from plants, trees,...
Two men with HIV have been off AIDS drugs for several months after receiving stem-cell transplants for cancer that appear to have cleared the virus...
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...
