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University of North Carolina scientists have created a new research tool, based on the fruit fly, to help crack the histone code. This research tool...

Harvesting sunlight is a trick plants mastered more than a billion years ago, using solar energy to feed themselves from the air and water around...

Imagine printing out molecules that can respond to their surroundings. A research project at the University of Washington merges custom chemistry and 3-D printing. Scientists...

Anyone who's ever been to France knows it's a country that celebrates its food and takes enormous pride in not only the taste, but also...

A collaborative study led by scientists from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has revealed the mechanical forces that drive...

NIBIB-funded researchers have developed a novel 3D vaccine that could provide a more effective way to harness the immune system to fight cancer as well...

A good drug is hard to design: to garner FDA approval and reach consumers, it must not only effectively treat a medical condition, but it...

By combining experimental data from X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, cryoelectron microscopy and lipidomics (the study of cellular lipid networks), researchers at the University of Oxford...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new drug to treat patients with advanced breast cancer, signaling a new strategy for arresting tumor...

How a brilliant-green sea slug manages to live for months at a time “feeding” on sunlight, like a plant, is clarified in a recent study...

Many people imagine robots today as clunky, metal versions of humans, but scientists are forging new territory in the field of ‘soft robotics.’ One of...

New research from scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) shows that the body’s immune system may be...

Lungfish and salamanders can hear, despite not having an outer ear or tympanic middle ear. These early terrestrial vertebrates were probably also able to hear...

If you were about to enter a crowded subway during flu season, packed with people sneezing and coughing, wouldn't it be helpful if your immune...

Liver cells derived from stem cells can be infected with malaria and used to test potential drugs. MIT researchers engineered liver-like cells that can be...