Scientists advance biocomputers made from living human brain cells to make energy efficient computing inspired by biology.

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

The protein, reverse transcriptase, has become an essential tool for making DNA copies of RNA.

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

Nearly three decades since the remarkable cloning of Dolly the sheep, it has all gone quiet on the human cloning front.

Of the approximately 62 percent of Americans eligible to donate blood, only 3 percent do so each year. But someone needs ...

This week in Science, Michael K. Rosen and 10 other members of a large collaboration at the Marine Biological Laboratory, the ...

The hunt for the holy grail of a longer life has consumed the careers of the brightest scientists and dented the fortunes of ...

"You could really, in a very fundamental sense, talk about redrawing the border around a brain," Hodak says, "possibly to ...

For the first time, MIT chemists have synthesized a fungal compound known as verticillin A, which was discovered more than 50 ...

China’s growing capabilities have drawn pharmaceutical multinationals to the country to either buy or co-develop innovative ...