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With the relentless rise of DNA nanotechnology's popularity, Emma Davies explores the role chemistry has played in its success As a supramolecular chemist, Hanadi Sleiman...

On the grand scale of things, we know so very little about the brain. Our thick-headedness isn’t quite cosmological in scale — we really do...

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned a benign virus into an engineering tool for assembling structures that mimic collagen, one of the...

A strain of genetically enhanced bacteria developed by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies may pave the way for new synthetic drugs and...

Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society (TBIS) is a charitable organization created to foster, develop and promote all aspects of science and technology in bioengineering of...

New technology from MIT and Harvard can edit DNA at the genome scale, giving cells novel functions. MIT and Harvard researchers have developed technologies that...

Chinese scientists have produced a herd of bioengineered cows that make milk that could substitute for human breast milk -- a possible alternative to formula...

The robotic exoskeleton eLegs could be a game changer for spinal cord injury rehabilitation

  As engineers begin to build tiny aircraft for tasks such as military-related surveillance and post-disaster search, they are turning to nature for inspiration. Conventional...

A pathway whereby bacteria communicate with each other has been discovered by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The discovery has important implications for...

Harvard University neurobiologists have created mice that can "smell" light, providing a potent new tool that could help researchers better understand the neural basis of...

  NASA's Human Research Program is all about risk reduction, finding ways to counter fatigue and mitigate radiation damage, among other potential issues in space...