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Scientists routinely seek to reprogram bacteria to produce proteins for drugs, biofuels and more, but they have struggled to get those bugs to follow orders....

Our brains give us the remarkable ability to make sense of situations we've never encountered before -- a familiar person in an unfamiliar place, for...

Chemists from Nijmegen have developed a catalyst that binds to DNA, slides over it and splits the molecule in particular places. The researchers were able...

Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that weeks of treatment with a repurposed FDA-approved drug halted the growth of -- and ultimately left...

Your smartphone now can see what the naked eye cannot: A single virus and bits of material less than one-thousandth of the width of a...

A new research group within Facebook is working on an emerging and powerful approach to artificial intelligence known as deep learning, which uses simulated networks...

Scientists have moved closer to developing a universal flu vaccine after using the 2009 pandemic as a natural experiment to study why some people seem...

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) discovered that an antibody that binds and neutralizes HIV likely also targets the body’s own “self” proteins. This...

With a few flicks of a light switch--on-off-on-off--Stanford University's Oscar Abilez is one step closer to changing the lives of millions. Why? Because as a...

Weizmann Institute scientists show that removing one protein from adult cells enables them to efficiently turn back the clock to a stem-cell-like state Embryonic stem...

The toxoplasma parasite can be deadly, causing spontaneous abortion in pregnant women or killing immune-compromised patients, but it has even stranger effects in mice. Infected...

A lens invented at The Ohio State University combines the focusing ability of a human eye with the wide-angle view of an insect eye to...

Google has launched a mysterious new project called Calico. It's "a new company focused on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and...

A new technique that allows scientists to measure the electrical activity in the communication junctions of the nervous systems has been developed by a researcher...