The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that ...

Johns Hopkins biophysicist Karen Fleming has been awarded the Provost's Prize for Faculty Excellence in Diversity for her pioneering work supporting gender equity in science fields and addressing ...

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Our understanding of DNA has grown dramatically over the past couple of decades. The CRISPR technology, which allows scientists to map and even change DNA, has helped to boost that understanding even ...

Scrawled X’s and O’s dance across the whiteboard behind Hawa Racine Thiam. At first glance, they look similar to drawings from a football playbook. But Thiam is no football coach, and those doodles ...

ROCKVILLE, MD – The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that Padmini Rangamani of the University of California, San Diego has been named as the new Editor-in-Chief of the The Biophysicsist, the ...

Erez Lieberman Aiden leads a group meeting for the Hi-C 3-D genome modeling project in Pierce Hall at Harvard University. Photo: Noah Devereaux/Wired E rez Lieberman Aiden wants to make a point about ...

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Richard B. Setlow of East Quogue, a biophysicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory internationally known for his research on DNA damage and repair, died April 6 of cardiac failure. He was 94. Setlow, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo biophysicist Priya R. Banerjee has received a $2.1 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to continue his research on biomolecular condensates, which ...

Today we tell the story of Mária Telkes, one of the developers of solar-thermal storage systems. Telkes was so dedicated to the world of solar energy that while she was working at the Massachusetts ...