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A new study is the first to show that living organisms can be persuaded to make silicon-carbon bonds-something only chemists had done before. Scientists at Caltech «bred» a bacterial protein to have the ability to make the man-made bonds, a finding that has applications in several industries.

IBM Watson Health (NYSE: IBM) and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard today announced a research initiative aimed at discovering the basis of cancer drug resistance.

Pitt researcher uses zebrafish to help mammalian hearts regenerate, including promising results in human heart cells in vitro

The fifth meeting of the Emergency Committee (EC) on Zika and microcephaly convened by the Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) regarding microcephaly, other neurological disorders and Zika virus was held by teleconference on 18 November 2016.

Technion researchers discover that biochemical “cross talk” in an important pathway can be altered so that immune system cells that have turned cancerous can be eliminated

On military live fire training ranges, troops practice firing artillery shells, drop bombs on old tanks or derelict buildings and test the capacity of new weapons.

A new study from UC Berkeley found that tissue health and repair dramatically decline in young mice when half of their blood is replaced with blood from old mice. The study argues against the rejuvenating properties of young blood and points to old blood, or molecules within, as driving the aging process.

Researchers report in the journal Science that they can increase plant productivity by boosting levels of three proteins involved in photosynthesis. In field trials, the scientists saw increases of 14 percent to 20 percent in the growth of their modified tobacco plants.