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An air-breathing bio-battery has been constructed by researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The core element...

Glial cells -- a family of cells found in the human central nervous system and, until recently, considered mere "housekeepers" -- now appear to be...

The veined wing of the clanger cicada kills bacteria solely through its physical structure — one of the first natural surfaces found to do so....

The flip of a single molecular switch helps create the mature neuronal connections that allow the brain to bridge the gap between adolescent impressionability and...

The Rice lab of bioengineer Ka-Yiu San is part of a recently announced $25 million United States Department of Agriculture project to develop a new...

  The discovery and analysis of an extremely rare African American Y chromosome pushes back the time of the most recent common ancestor for the...

National Taiwan University is a national co-educational research university located in Taipei, Taiwan. In Taiwan, it is colloquially known as "Táidà". Its 1,086,167 m2 main...

A "Google Map" model of human metabolism has been produced by an international team of bioengineers, offering "improved predictive capability" over its predecessor.

A team of researchers from UMass Medical School, the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and the University of Mississippi Medical Center have reported the first case...

A study published today in the journal Nature reports that a viral predator of the cholera bacteria has stolen the functional immune system of bacteria...

In a significant advance for brain-machine interfaces, engineers at Brown University have developed a novel wireless, broadband, rechargeable, fully implantable brain sensor that has performed...

For the first time, scientists have shown that transplanted eyes located far outside the head in a vertebrate animal model can confer vision without a...

Fat worms confirm that researchers from Michigan State University have successfully bioengineered a plant with oily leaves ­– a feat that could enhance biofuel production...

  Scientists have long been dreaming about building a computer that would work like a brain. This is because a brain is far more energy-saving...

The body’s immune system exists to identify and destroy foreign objects, whether they are bacteria, viruses, flecks of dirt or splinters. Unfortunately, nanoparticles designed to...