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A team of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered a way to extract large quantities of hydrogen from any plant, a breakthrough that has the potential...

In a new discovery that represents a major step in solving a critical design challenge, Arizona State University Professor Hao Yan has led a research...

The White House unveiled a sweeping new initiative on Tuesday to map the individual cells and circuits that make up the human brain, a project...

The term "survival of the fittest" refers to natural selection in biological systems, but Darwin's theory may apply more broadly than that. New research from...

The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced  that it was awarded a $9.25 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects...

UK-based scientists have designed an 'intelligent' microchip which they claim can suppress appetite.Animal trials of the electronic implant are about to begin and its makers...

A team of Stanford University bioengineers has taken computing beyond mechanics and electronics into the living realm of biology. They have developed a biological transistor...

Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from bacteria. Findings published today in...

Thirty years ago, the future lay in programming computers. Today, it’s programming cells. That was the message of panelists at an afternoon session yesterday (March...

Previous hypotheses about the origin of these olfactory nerve cells have given credit to embryonic cells that develop into skin or the central nervous system,...

UCLA bioengineering professor Wentai Liu, more than two decades of visionary research burst into the headlines last month when the FDA approved what it called...

The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Sony DADC announced a collaboration that will harness Sony DADC's global manufacturing expertise to...

  Tübingen and Saarland researchers identify the molecules allowing mice to sniff out the genes of other mice.  

  Rice University researchers have found a way to divide and modify enzymes to create what amounts to a genetic logic gate.

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have helped explain how the brain keeps track of the incredibly rich and complex environments people navigate...