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"We're going to be able to write DNA. What do we want to say?" Professor Drew Endy of biological engineering asked this question as he...

MIT researchers and colleagues have released the first draft of the dog genome sequence, which could aid the characterization of dog diseases. The draft has...

Bioengineers report a new approach to creating three-dimensional samples of human tissue that could push researchers closer to their ultimate goal: tissue engineering for therapeutic...

Nano-circuit fabrication using a living bacterium? Science fiction seems to have met with reality with the news that researchers at the NASA Ames Research Center,...

DNA makes RNA makes protein. In retrospect, it couldn't be clearer. But to Alexander Rich and the other pioneers trying to figure out RNA structure...

Scientists from around the world have been contacting an MIT laboratory for samples of "biorubber," a new material with myriad applications including engineered lungs, heart...

Viruses subvert their hosts to pump out masses of new viruses. In an unusual twist, a researcher reports in the May 3 issue of Science...

MIT scientists wielding molecular scissors have shown for the first time that the sugar jackets of cancer cells can be tailored to inhibit tumors. The...

It's not exactly "ET, phone home," but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report in the January 10 issue of Nature that they can...

When biology met engineering, they created a new field for scientists who don't want to be hedged into one discipline.   Scanning the c.v. of...

The artificial womb exists. In Tokyo, researchers have developed a technique called EUFI -- extrauterine fetal incubation. They have taken goat fetuses, threaded catheters through...