The company has a goal to build a massive bank of bone marrow from deceased organ donors to treat patients with blood cancers ...

Electrons have three intrinsic properties: spin, charge and orbital angular momentum. Researchers have long studied how to ...

Penn State researchers have developed a technique they call “cellular snowballing,” in which lab-grown cells mixed with ...

Synthetic biologists were tantalized by the idea of making mirror images of microbes. Then things got complicated.

The new facility aims to become the first accredited university-based forensic anthropology center in the country ...

Homebrewing has a quiet charm to it. It turns a kitchen corner into a tiny brewery, and ordinary ingredients into something ...

Fiber-optic lines carry the lifeblood of the information economy. They could also tell crucial stories about city life, ...

When chemists design drug candidates, shape matters enormously. Many active pharmaceutical ingredients contain branched carbon structures—points where the molecular chain forks in a specific direction ...

Creating artificial systems that mimic the functioning of cells is one of the goals of what is known as synthetic biology.

An individual could potentially use an AI model or a combination of models to engineer a dangerous pathogen, launch autonomous cyberattacks on power grids or hospital networks, or create and ...

University of Tennessee researchers James Ostrowski and Rebekah Herrman are developing quantum-computing tools to tackle multi-stage stochastic decision problems in fields like energy, logistics, and ...

The time had come to open the envelope, but Stephan Schlamminger, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and ...