Bone bioengineering is an interdisciplinary field that strives to enhance the repair and regeneration of skeletal tissues through the design of advanced biomaterials and the modulation of molecular ...

A new study maps the evolutionary history and interrelationships of protein domains, the subunits of protein molecules, over 3.8 billion years. Proteins have been quietly taking over our lives since ...

Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla is joined by Shu Chien, Gene Lay, Executive Vice Chancellor Elizabeth H. Simmons, Jacobs School ...

Superbugs, bacteria that are immune to multiple antibiotics, pose a great challenge to modern medicine. Researchers from the B CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering at TUD Dresden University of ...

A congressional commission says the U.S. needs a ‘molecular moonshot’ to boost bioengineering, a key sector for San Diego research. KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge says the goal is to stay ahead ...

The University of California, Santa Cruz, has approved a new major in bioengineering, an interdisciplinary program focusing on the applications of engineering to medicine and the biological sciences.

All cells on Earth are enveloped in a fatty layer of lipids. Lipid membranes protect the content of the cells, including genetic information such as RNA and DNA. A new study reveals how lipids and RNA ...

Visible light-powered molecular machines could be used to efficiently and effectively treat bacterial infections in vivo by physically disrupting the bacterial membrane. James Tour and fellow ...

Lynn Hlatky is the founding director of the Center of Cancer Systems Biology. She joined the Medical Center from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Department of Radiation Oncology at Harvard ...

Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusk animals that are now an iconic fossil group often collected by amateurs. Over 350 million years of evolution, ammonoids developed increasingly elaborate ...

AUSTIN — What if you could train your body to fight off cancer? This is how vaccines work, after all — the vaccination trains the immune system to respond to viruses, bacteria and other foreign bodies ...