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In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they were studying in a common...

Columbia researchers develop a general optical imaging platform to examine activities of a broad range of small biomolecules in living cells and animals Columbia University...

Engineers like to make things that work. And if one wants to make something work using nanoscale components—the size of proteins, antibodies, and viruses—mimicking the...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new device that may one day help prevent...

We are looking for PhD students interested in the following projects, starting as soon as possible: Wavefront/beamshaping for deep tissue ablation Information retrieval through scattering...

Bionic dog can walk again after being fitted with prosthetics Naki’o, a mixed breed dog from Nebraska, has become the first dog fitted with four...

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded researchers at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, a €2.43million grant for a project that aims...

The research group of Ana Teixeira at Karolinska Institutet is looking to hire an outstanding postdoctoral fellow to join a project that aims to investigate...

Christopher Finch ’14, Amherst College’s latest recipient of a Churchill Foundation Scholarship, intends to apply science to benefit a hungry planet, much in the way...

On February 25 and 26 the US Food and Drug Administration discussed the possibility of legalising three-parent embryos – or, in scientific lingo, “oocyte modification...

Researchers at Princeton University have discovered the 3D structure of an enzyme that cuts to ribbons the genetic material of viruses and helps defend against...

There are more than a trillion cells called neurons that form a labyrinth of connections in our brains. Each of these neurons contains millions of...

London designer and researcher Shamees Aden is developing a concept for running shoes that would be 3D-printed from synthetic biological material and could repair themselves...

Tissue engineering is the use of a combination of cells, engineering and materials methods, and suitable biochemical and physio-chemical factors to improve or replace biological...