What could be the similarity between human skin and turtle shell? A group of researchers led by molecular biologist Leopold Eckhart of the University Department…

Biocontainment measures form a vital aspect of genetic engineering. Two US teams have independently created genetically modified bacteria whose survival depends on an…

Noam Sobel, a neuroscientist of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and his colleagues have found that each individual has a personal sense of…

Long thought to have been eliminated in mammals, antiviral RNA interference may exist in mammalian cells, after all, suggest Maillard et al. …

A professor of biotechnology and bioengineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has created a device that contains light-…

Although it is known that Type 1 diabetes occurs when the body's immune system kills insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, researchers were not aware of…

Certain species of bats have been known to harbor the Ebola virus. According to a study led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the University of…

Although researchers have succeeded in sequencing the human genome, a thorough study of how human proteins operate and interact is essential. A group of…

Cancer researcher and physician Jeffrey Engelman of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has found a promising way of treating drug-resistant…

Stem cells receive various molecular cues, but they differentiate between these cues i.e. they ignore the irrelevant cues and respond only to the crucial signs…