Nano Tech

An international team of researchers has uncovered a destructive mechanism at the molecular level that causes a well-known phenomenon associated with obesity,…

In February, as part of our 25th anniversary innovation series, we profiled the discovery and subsequent harnessing of Agrobacterium to modify crops, leading…

Ultraviolet radiation, such as sunlight, can damage cellular DNA, leading to cancer. UC San Diego researchers have described the underlying mechanism that…

In the fruit fly, a single pair of brain neurons command backward locomotion in both larvae and adults, researchers report. The mapping of descending circuitry…

A featured story by PBS NewsHour reaffirms that insurance companies and drug cost middlemen determine what patients pay out of pocket for prescription drugs,…

Pfizer signed a three-year agreement to co-promote Exact Sciences’ Cologuard stool DNA screening test for colorectal cancer, committing to spend a total of…

Scientists at the MDI Biological Laboratory and the University of Maine have discovered that genetic material in the cell that was previously thought to be…

Bacteria cause many serious illnesses, from food poisoning to pneumonia. The challenge for scientists is that disease-causing bacteria are extraordinarily…

Ignoring President Donald Trump’s proposed budget, the Senate is setting up to approve a $2 billion boost in funding for the National Institutes of Health. The…

A major obstacle to in-cell genome editing is, well, the cell itself. “Human cells don’t like to take in stuff,” explained UC Santa Barbara’s Norbert Reich, a…