The Coming Age of Enhancement IF a brain implant were safe and available and allowed you to operate your iPad or car using only thought, would you want one? What about an embedded device that [...]

The science behind it is closer than many people may think A dystopian society supported by genetically modified clone workers stands out among the six stories that make up the sprawling film “Cloud Atlas.” The [...]

The achievement is the latest success in the relatively new field of regenerative medicine A series of achievements have stoked excitement about the potential of regenerative medicine, which aims to tackle diseases by replacing or [...]

The number of tasks they could undertake is limited only by evolution and human ingenuity. The circuit is designed to act as the controller in synthetic bacteria that monitor and modify their environment By force [...]

This could be useful for greenhouse gas mitigation, bioremediation or erosion control. The same “green revolution” concepts that have revolutionized crop agriculture and helped to feed billions of people around the world may now offer [...]

Technique may enable robotic animals that move with the strength and flexibility of their living counterparts. Many robotic designs take nature as their muse: sticking to walls like geckos, swimming through water like tuna, sprinting [...]

A gene that keeps switchgrass forever young could have far-reaching implications for the development of the plant as a biofuel crop, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists. Inserting a specific gene called “corngrass” from [...]

That is the most dramatic reduction in this compound reported to date in published research. Scientists have found that eliminating an enzyme from mice with symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease leads to a 90 percent reduction [...]

Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a reliable method to turn the clock back on blood cells, restoring them to a primitive stem cell state from which they can then develop into any other type of [...]

There’s a lot of hype and speculation about algae as a biofuel source Algae are high on the genetic engineering agenda as a potential source for biofuel, and they should be subjected to independent studies [...]

“It will be a game changer.” Most methane comes from natural gas, a fossil fuel. Stanford and Penn State scientists are taking a greener approach using microbes that can convert renewable electricity into carbon-neutral methane. [...]

A new generation of environmentally-friendly tires has been launched in Europe. Dutch tire company Apollo Vredestein has produced prototypes of tires manufactured using natural rubber made from guayule and Russian dandelion, the latter also the [...]