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Scientists have sequenced the genomes of nearly 6,900 organisms, but they know the functions of only about half of the protein-coding genes thus far discovered....

The membranes surrounding and inside cells are involved in every aspect of biological function. They separate the cell's various metabolic functions, compartmentalize the genetic material,...

Naked mole rats have what any animal would want. They live long lives -- about 30 years -- and stay healthy until the very end....

Army scientists at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) and academic collaborators are conducting research on organoids (small swatches of human tissue) on microchips. Crystal...

Similar to using Python or Java to write code for a computer, chemists soon could be able to use a structured set of instructions to...

In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times...

Scientists succeeded in producing 580 mg of gasoline per litre of cultured broth by converting in vivo generated fatty acid. E. coli bacteria. (Credit: Image...

Scientists routinely seek to reprogram bacteria to produce proteins for drugs, biofuels and more, but they have struggled to get those bugs to follow orders....

Our brains give us the remarkable ability to make sense of situations we've never encountered before -- a familiar person in an unfamiliar place, for...

Chemists from Nijmegen have developed a catalyst that binds to DNA, slides over it and splits the molecule in particular places. The researchers were able...

Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that weeks of treatment with a repurposed FDA-approved drug halted the growth of -- and ultimately left...

Your smartphone now can see what the naked eye cannot: A single virus and bits of material less than one-thousandth of the width of a...

A new research group within Facebook is working on an emerging and powerful approach to artificial intelligence known as deep learning, which uses simulated networks...

Scientists have moved closer to developing a universal flu vaccine after using the 2009 pandemic as a natural experiment to study why some people seem...