Biological Sciences
A team led by University of Maryland researchers has unraveled the genomic code of the E. coli bacteria that has killed 53 people.
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The University of Michigan said it was pleased with a judge's rejection of a U.S. lawsuit intending to block stem cell research funding.
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Greengenes is helping in the search for biofuels and other important research goals.
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Salk Institute scientists have developed a better technique for generating large numbers of blood cells from a patient's own cells.
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New technolgies created by Harvard and MIT researchers could allow the editing of a cell's genome.
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The Sanford Guide reference for infectious disease treatent has released its first mobile app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
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Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ: PACB) announced that it has completed a de novo sequence assembly of the Escherichia coli O104:H4 strain responsible for the recent outbreak in Germany using its Single Molecule Real Time (SMRT™)
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Binghamton University researcher Christof Grewer thinks he has an important brain transport protein – glutamate transporter – figured out. And he’s using a novel approach to spy on them by taking aim with lasers. Grewer, a bioph
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University College Dublin and USDA-ARS win competition designed to promote proteomics research in life sciences Integromics, a market leader in IT solutions for life sciences in the field of genomics and proteomics, today announces the two winner
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Stem cell technologies have been proposed for cell-based diagnostics and regenerative medicine therapies. However, being able to make stem cells efficiently develop into a desired cell type -- such as muscle, skin, blood vessels, bone or neurons -- l
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Among science’s “final frontiers,” one of the most difficult to cross has been looking into the molecular-level workings of living cells. Now, a University of Massachusetts Amherst physicist has built an instrument to do just that a
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As it turns out, humans aren't the only organisms that turn to caffeine for a pick-me-up. University of Iowa scientists have identified four different bacteria that actually can live on caffeine. One of them, known as Pseudomonas putida CBB5, was fo
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