Harvard scientist Amy Wagers has demonstrated that gene-editing machinery can be delivered straight to stem cells where they live, rather than in a dish. “If...

September 11, 2018 University of British Columbia Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new ultrasound transducer, or probe, that ...

University of Copenhagen Each year, cancer kills approximately 9 million people worldwide, and early diagnosis is crucial to efficient treatment and survival...

American Chemical Society The life-threatening bacteria MRSA can cripple a medical facility since it is resistant to treatment. But scientists report that th...

Maxx Chatsko For every over-hyped technology in the biopharma sector, a lesson in humility never seems far behind. But it seems most can be traced back to a ...

By Dana Bartholomew Nearly $800 million in federal contracts awarded over 12 years have helped Los Angeles area biotechnology firms take a lead on developing...

Brookhaven National Laboratory is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter ...

Mohit Kumar, Nicole L. Ing, Vishal Narang, Nadeesha K. Wijerathne, Allon I. Hochbaum & Rein V. Ulijn Nature Chemistry (2018) Biological cells have the compl...

Cornell researchers have become the first to control atomically thin magnets with an electric field, a breakthrough that provides a blueprint for producing e...

Bernard Marr AI-powered robot microscopes will help clean up the world’s water supplies Water shortage is a problem that could affect up to a quarter of the w...

By Tereza Pultarova, Live Science Contributor A 45-year-old telescope is going to get a high-tech upgrade that will enable it to search for answers to the mo...

By Deborah Netburn Biology textbooks may be due for a rewrite. For the first time, scientists have detected a DNA structure inside living human cells that lo...