Bioengineering and Biotechnology News

The mechanism that controls the internal 24-hour clock of all forms of life from human cells to algae has been identified by scientists

A workhorse of modern biology is sick, and scientists couldn't be happier

The mystery of how an abundance of fossils have been marvellously preserved for nearly half a billion years in a remote region of Africa has been solved by a team of geologists from the University of Leicester's Department of Geology

The discovery of an ancient fossil, nicknamed 'Mrs T', has allowed scientists for the first time to sex pterodactyls -- flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs between 220-65 million years ago.

To rebuild damaged parts of a human body from scratch is a dream that has long fired human imagination, from Mary Shelley's Doctor Frankenstein to modern day surgeons

A research team from across the United States and Ecuador has pinpointed 1898 as the year the avipoxvirus, or avian pox, hit the Galapagos Islands and started infecting its birds

The fruit fly has evolved a method for arranging the tiny, hair-like structures it uses to feel and hear the world that's so efficient scientists say it could be used to more effectively deploy wireless sensor networks & distributed computing applications

Calling the results "extremely surprising," researchers report that methane gas concentrations in the Gulf of Mexico have returned to near normal levels only months after a massive release occurred following the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion.

As every middle-school child knows, in the process of photosynthesis, plants take the sun's energy and convert it to electrical energy

The first in-depth national study of wild bees in the U.S. has uncovered major losses in the relative abundance of several bumble bee species and declines in their geographic range since record-keeping began in the late 1800s