Borrowing and tweaking bacterial genes to enhance electrical activity might treat heart, nervous system injury

Nikon also recognized 76 other winners of the 2016 Small World competition

The grant will fund Izpisua Belmonte’s lab in attempting to generate functional primate organs and tissues in vivo in a large animal host, the pig

Jackson Laboratory professor recognized for work in big data in life sciences

The protection against reinfection was one of several findings published in a recent Nature Medicine article

The maze constructed by the researchers was designed with fully automated features and video tracking to avoid some of the other experimental pitfalls of earlier mazes

In the new study, the scientists observed the virus’s effects in animal models at two different points—during early postnatal development, when the brain is growing rapidly, and at weaning, when the brain has largely reached adult size

The extremely bright X-rays from the Advanced Photon Source will give scientists an unprecedented look inside the arm bones of the largest and best-preserved T. rex skeleton ever found

To quantify nucleic acids, DNA, or RNA, scientists often use the quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)

“Discovering DNA related to the black widow spider toxin gene came as a total surprise," researcher says

Tanuja Koppal, PhD, speaks with Jennifer Smith, PhD, deputy director of the ICCB-Longwood Screening Facility, and Yanhui (Claire) Hu, PhD, senior bioinformatician at the Drosophila RNAi Screening Center in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School

More evidence that life could have evolved with relative ease: New research supports ancestors of genes self-copying in a mushy puddle