Caltech researchers demonstrated a new method to use light to control active matter—a kind of material made up of individual ...

Scientists from Australia have successfully bioengineered genetically modified fruit flies and zebrafish capable of absorbing ...

Australian scientists created the first kangaroo embryo via IVF, a breakthrough in species conservation. Using eastern grey kangaroo specimens, the technique involved injecting a single sperm cell ...

Synthetic materials are made from natural resources. Synthetic materials are made by chemically changing the starting substances to create a material with different characteristics. Some examples of ...

Delivering drugs to specific, hard-to-reach areas in the human body remains a challenge in drug development. Typically, drug molecules administered via pills or injections circulate randomly through ...

The olfactory nerves run from the inside of the nose, through the skull, and then directly into part of the brain called the ...

Feb. 10, 2025 — Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape -- to become either spheres or larger filaments -- to favor their ability to infect cells depending on environmental ...

A new nanomedicine drug delivery system improves chemotherapy targeting for choriocarcinoma, shrinking tumors by 95% in mouse models. Researchers engineered polymersomes to enhance methotrexate (MTX) ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing production of certain messenger RNAs and appear to help ...

Chemistry professor Samantha Gateman saw the negative side effects of copper IUDs and is leading efforts to create an alternative IUD made of iron.

Australian scientists have successfully produced the world's first kangaroo embryos through in vitro fertilisation (IVF), in a breakthrough that could help save other marsupial species from ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...