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The King lab, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, is seeking a creative, motivated, and highly skilled Postdoctoral Associate...

It may be the birth of a new supermaterial – not long ago, spider silk materials were considered science fiction. Despite being a bio-material and...

Intelligent people are more likely to trust others, while those who score lower on measures of intelligence are less likely to do so, says a...

Although choosing to do something because the perceived benefit outweighs the financial cost is something people do daily, little is known about what happens in...

Researchers at UC Berkeley found that an electrical current can be used to orchestrate the flow of a group of cells, an achievement that could...

Medical implants, complex interfaces between brain and machine or remotely controlled insects: Recent developments combining machines and organisms have great potentials. In a new review,...

A co-author of a Japanese study that promised a revolutionary way to create stem cells has called for the headline-grabbing research to be retracted over...

There have been plenty of fad diets that captured the public's imagination over the years, but Harvard scientists have identified what may be the strangest...

Fresh banana, a waft of flowers, blueberry: the scents in Shota Atsumi's laboratory in the UC Davis Department of Chemistry are a little sweeter than...

A team of Bio-X researchers at Stanford has developed mice whose sensitivity to pain can be dialed up or down by shining light on their...

The Microdevice Design Research Assistant IV will perform research and collaborate with Institute faculty, staff, fellow and students in the creation and execution of research...

In a significant advance for the growing field of synthetic biology, Rice University bioengineers have created a toolkit of genes and hardware that uses colored...

ZENBU, a new, freely available bioinformatics tool developed at the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technology in Japan, enables researchers to quickly and easily integrate,...

Massey University scientists have discovered a universal law that explains how hybrid species survive and thrive. Massey University computational biologist Murray Cox Computational biologist Professor...

For the first time, researchers have shown that an essential biological process known as protein synthesis can be studied in adult stem cells – something...