Biology

California is home to some of the world's most promising stem cell research, but to sustain the industry, the state will need an ever-increasing army of trained workers - from lab technicians to top-level researchers - and a healthy backbone of nonscient

Across the globe, the microscopic plants at the base of the oceans' food chain have been disappearing over the past century at a rate of about 1 percent per year, researchers have found.

( American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ) The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology last week named 10 scientists the winners of the nonprofit's annual awards. Another winner was announced earlier this year.

MEDFORD — Inspiration for a new generation of soft-bodied robots that could burrow into inaccessible spots for everything from search-and-rescue to medical applications comes from a most unlikely place: the “moth closet’’ at Tufts University. Tuft

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.----Fluxion Biosciences, a leading provider of functional cell analysis systems for drug discovery and diagnostics, today announced that it has won a 2010 R&D 100 Award for its IonFlux™ HT System.