Biotech & pharma

One step closer to finding out how wine may protect your neurons

04 May 2017

One step closer to finding out how wine may protect your neurons

04 May 2017

Stem cells edited to fight arthritis

29 Apr 2017

Using CRISPR technology, a team of researchers rewired stem cells' genetic circuits to produce an anti-inflammatory arthritis drug when the cells encounter inflammation. The technique eventually could act as a vaccine for arthritis and other chronic conditions

A chicken-egg question: Where do baby genes come from?

28 Apr 2017

Scientists uncover mechanism allowing bacteria to survive the human immune system

21 Apr 2017

Antibody helps detect protein implicated in Alzheimer's, other diseases

20 Apr 2017

Scripps researchers make immune cells resistant to HIV

12 Apr 2017

Homing system delivers drugs to specific neurons

10 Apr 2017

Researchers assemble five new synthetic chromosomes

10 Mar 2017

Can math help explain our bodies -- and our diseases?

06 Mar 2017

Latest genomic technology uncovers secrets of immune system's response to malaria

04 Mar 2017

Gene therapy to fight blood cancer shows encouraging results in study

02 Mar 2017

Common bacterium may help control disease-bearing mosquitoes

28 Feb 2017

If maths and maps make you nervous, it could be because its in your genes

28 Feb 2017

Decoding the genome's cryptic language

25 Feb 2017

Princeton-Intel collaboration breaks new ground in studies of the brain

25 Feb 2017

Fructose is generated in the human brain

24 Feb 2017

Researchers aim to disrupt egg production in dengue- and Zika-spreading mosquito

24 Feb 2017

Researchers are first to see DNA 'blink'

20 Feb 2017

DNA computer brings 'intelligent drugs' a step closer

17 Feb 2017

'Anti-ageing' hormone could unlock new treatments for kidney and heart disease

16 Feb 2017

Limiting lung cancer’s spread and growth in the brain

16 Feb 2017

Brain has rhythm

16 Feb 2017

Researchers develop 'living diode' using cardiac muscle cells

15 Feb 2017

Ebola viruses need very few mutations to cause disease in new host species

15 Feb 2017