In an effort to reveal the inner workings of a protein that serves as a cell's damage detection system, scientists at Johns ...

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Researchers have designed a smart drug that hunts down and breaks a little-known RNA that cancer cells depend on. The drug ...

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Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell ...

Solar panels made from silicon already adorn rooftops and vast fields around the world—but they are reaching their ...

Some plants stay healthy even when a key nutrient drops. New research explains the root and cell tricks that help plants ...

The Little Rock Board of Directors on Tuesday voted to authorize a roughly $5.7 million construction contract for the ...

For years, researchers have watched the tiny power plants inside brain cells falter in Parkinson’s disease and wondered what ...

A soft microrobot uses light driven motion, temperature sensing, and localized heating to control single cells inside 3D ...