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For patients with diabetes, insulin is critical to maintaining good health and normal blood-sugar levels. However, it’s not an ideal solution because it can be...

A two-part water-based gel made of synthetic DNA could bring the Heriot-Watt inventors of a 3D bio printer closer to being able to print organs...

On Valentine's Day, people who have been unlucky in love will be said to suffer from a "broken heart." Broken heart also refers to an...

Cell cultures used in biology and medical research may not act as a faithful mimic of real tissue, according to research published in Genome Biology....

University of North Carolina scientists have created a new research tool, based on the fruit fly, to help crack the histone code. This research tool...

Harvesting sunlight is a trick plants mastered more than a billion years ago, using solar energy to feed themselves from the air and water around...

Imagine printing out molecules that can respond to their surroundings. A research project at the University of Washington merges custom chemistry and 3-D printing. Scientists...

Anyone who's ever been to France knows it's a country that celebrates its food and takes enormous pride in not only the taste, but also...

A collaborative study led by scientists from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has revealed the mechanical forces that drive...

NIBIB-funded researchers have developed a novel 3D vaccine that could provide a more effective way to harness the immune system to fight cancer as well...

A good drug is hard to design: to garner FDA approval and reach consumers, it must not only effectively treat a medical condition, but it...

By combining experimental data from X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, cryoelectron microscopy and lipidomics (the study of cellular lipid networks), researchers at the University of Oxford...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new drug to treat patients with advanced breast cancer, signaling a new strategy for arresting tumor...

How a brilliant-green sea slug manages to live for months at a time “feeding” on sunlight, like a plant, is clarified in a recent study...

Many people imagine robots today as clunky, metal versions of humans, but scientists are forging new territory in the field of ‘soft robotics.’ One of...