Implanted tubes that transport bodily fluids can get gross. A lab prototype suggests a new vibration-based way to keep them clean and prevent infection.

Anyone around in the 1980s might recall the hand wringing over “test tube” babies, conceived in IVF labs. That now seems quaint — today, more than 1 in 50 US babies are conceived by IVF — but on the ...

Traditional biochemical methods of studying human gene mutations are often laborious and costly. Now bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new simple approach to ...

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How did we end up in this situation, where every child is born pre-polluted? The answer lies in America’s fervor for the ...

H. Bentley Glass was at one time one of the most famous scientists in the nation. His life was a journey that began with ...

The total generation rate of greater than 10% resulted in about 100 watts per square meter of tube, enough to power a blender ...

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I had the chance to check out the prototype of a reengineered robot vacuum called Matic. It doesn't look like any other robot ...

Scientists inserted DNA-encoding methylmercury detoxification enzymes into the genome of an abundant human gut bacterium. The engineered bacterium detoxified methylmercury in the gut of mice and ...

This dangerous misinformation likely predates Kennedy's rise from the supermarket tabloids. But Mr. Secretary latches on to ...