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The Opto-electrical effect can be used to control the passage of DNA molecules through nanopore sensors, thereby leading to more accurate sensing and sequencing of...

Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron is one of the good guys. Known simply as Bt, it is an abundant member of the estimated 500 to 1,000 species of...

Scientists have created a virtual model of the brain that daydreams like humans do. Researchers created the computer model based on the dynamics of brain...

Today, scientists from IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) published a breakthrough drug-delivery technique, demonstrating the first biodegradable, biocompatible and...

Tufts University biologists using new, automated training and testing techniques have found that planarian flatworms store memory outside their brains and, if their heads are...

Bioengineers have developed a new method of replacing missing teeth with a bioengineered material generated from a person's own gum cells. Current implant-based methods of...

A team of researchers of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, a city in NW Romania, has created a recipe for artificial blood whose preliminary tests...

Light enhances brain activity during a cognitive task even in some people who are totally blind, according to a study conducted by researchers at the...

When you look at the hands of a clock or the streets on a map, your brain is effortlessly performing computations that tell you about...

What sounds like a dream of the future has already been the subject of research for a few years: simply printing out tissue and organs....

Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego have created a new method for analyzing RNA transcripts from samples of 50 to 100 cells. The...

In medicine, the printers are already making prosthetic hands, hearing aid cases and parts of human ears. This riboflavin-rich material can be used to print...

Bioengineers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Laser Zentrum Hannover have discovered that a naturally-occurring compound can...

Embracing the idea that molecules can be programmed much like a computer, researchers can now perform remarkable feats on a very small scale. New Caltech...