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Researchers have turned conventional DVDs into portable and cheap diagnostic tools for developing countries, and are now adapting their prototype into a workable medical device....

The David H. Murdock Research Institute in Kannapolis received a $50 million gift Wednesday from its founder, David Murdock. The nonprofit institute is part of...

Bioengineered spider protein could be the start of a new generation of anti-venom vaccines, potentially saving thousands of lives worldwide. The new protein, created from...

Society is increasingly becoming more data-driven. Noting the power of vast reservoirs of public information, the federal government launched the Big Data Research and Development...

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...