A year of new treatments, new technologies, new ways to stay safe during disasters and new insights on the mysteries of the ...

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off tremendously for systems biologist Yifat Merbl. When she and her team investigated cellular recycling centres ...

A biocomputer harnesses biologically derived materials, such as DNA, proteins, or living tissue (e.g., lab-grown neurons), to ...

Researchers around the world are racing to push computing into unfamiliar territory.

Interactions among viruses can help them succeed inside their hosts or impart vulnerabilities that make them easier to treat.

EDGE FGT: Cell type-specific tools for the study of gene function in spongesScott Nichols, College of Natural Sciences and ...

Computational biology expert Nadia Lanman helps cancer researchers find solutions in massive datasets generated through ...

Scientists in Melbourne have discovered how tiny electrical pulses can steer stem cells as they grow, opening the door to new ...

A lab in the Swiss town of Vevey is working on a research program that seems straight out of science fiction. Dishes no bigger than teacups hold tiny white balls of living human brain cells, called ...

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists for discovering how a particular kind of cell can stop the body's immune system from attacking itself. The discovery of these ...

Scientists have made a landmark breakthrough that enables the creation of viable human egg cells from a skin cell, new research claims. The study, published in Nature Communications, detailed how US ...

Creating human eggs from adult cells just got one step closer to reality. A technique used in cloning combined with fertilization and a bit of chemical coaxing caused human skin cells to produce eggs ...