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University of Washington engineers and NanoFacture, a Bellevue, Wash., company, have created a device that can extract human DNA from fluid samples in a simpler,...

Second Sight Medical Products in Sylmar has won approval from the FDA to sell its bionic eye, which helps people regain some of their vision.Robert...

A massive study analyzing gene expression data from 22 tumor types has identified multiple metabolic expression changes associated with cancer. The analysis, conducted by researchers...

The human body contains trillions of cells, all derived from a single cell, or zygote, made by the fusion of an egg and a sperm....

New brain-machine interfaces that exploit the plasticity of the brain may allow people to control prosthetic devices in a natural way Imagine a piece of...

A key type of human brain cell developed in the laboratory grows seamlessly when transplanted into the brains of mice, UC San Francisco researchers have...

These nanosponges, which thus far have been studied in mice, can neutralize “pore-forming toxins,” which destroy cells by poking holes in their cell membranes. Unlike...

When molecular biology methods failed her, Sangeeta Bhatia turned to engineering and microfabrication to build a liver from scratch.Liver cells are very finicky: once removed...

Last summer, in a Harvard robotics laboratory, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paper clip, weighing less than a tenth of a...

The main objective of the International Summer School is to provide in depth education on techniques of recording and analyzing multi-modal data from invasive and...

Practitioners of DNA origami have spent the better part of the past decade folding the molecule into minuscule smiley faces, boxes, letters of the alphabet...

The ability to short-circuit debilitating tremors in disease states with implantable stimulators is nothing short of remarkable. The same can be said for cochlear prosthetics...

Scientists have made a step forward in their ability to mimic the sense of touch.A team from the US and China made an experimental array...

Reporting in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Tomás González-Villa and colleagues devised a recipe for improving beer foam. They identified a gene in...

A study at UW-Madison is the first to show that human stem cells can successfully implant themselves in the brain and then heal neurological deficits,...