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 biological Internet is in its very earliest stages” If you were a bacterium, the virus M13 might seem innocuous enough. It insinuates more than it invades, setting up shop like a freeloading houseguest, not

A new study offers proof that stem cells can reconnect the inner ear to the brain More than 275 million people have moderate-to-profound hearing loss, and many of those cases are caused by a breach

The goal is to be able to print biological tissues for regenerative medicine. Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a novel technology that can fabricate, in mere seconds, microscale three dimensional

Using next-generation sequencing technology and a novel strategy to encode 1,000 times the largest data size previously achieved in DNA, Harvard geneticist encodes his book in life’s language Although George Church‘s next book doesn’t hit

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

Can be directly substituted for, or blended with, gasoline A humble soil bacterium called Ralstonia eutropha has a natural tendency, whenever it is stressed, to stop growing and put all its energy into making complex

Plants produce toxins to defend themselves against potential enemies, from herbivorous pests to diseases. Oilseed rape plants produce glucosinolates to serve this purpose. However, due to the content of glucosinolates, farmers can only use limited

Will be broadly applicable to the reverse engineering of muscular organs in humans. Having roamed the seas for at least 500 million years and holding the title of the oldest multi-organ animal on the planet,

  Princeton scientists fine-tune test for early-stage cancer, Alzheimer’s disease Scientists at Princeton University say they have used nanotechnology to make tests to detect diseases, such as cancer and Alzheimer’s, 3 million times more sensitive.

“remarkable electronic properties” The Jell-O-like material, from the labs of Stanford professors Yi Cui and Zhenan Bao, may have applications in areas as widespread as energy storage, medical sensors and biofuel cells. Stanford researchers have

Doubling the amount of fat removed Nanodiamonds, pieces of carbon less than ten-thousandths the diameter of a human hair, have been found to help loosen crystallized fat from surfaces in a project led by research