In medical research, animal-based experiments have thus far been a necessary evil. Fraunhofer researchers have developed a highly promising alternative, ...

You may remember neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis — he built the brain-controlled exoskeleton that allowed a paralyzed man to kick the ...

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Scientists have identified a biological clock that provides vital clues about how long a person is likely to live. Researchers ...

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Three-dimensional printing technology can make surgery safer for children with congenital heart disease and reduce the duration as well as ...

During the past two years I have come to realise that the PhD experience varies wildly across the humanities and ...

There is no rest for a baby's brain - not even in sleep. While infants sleep they are reprocessing what ...

A researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology has discovered a bacterium that can produce hydrogen, an element that ...

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have found that defects in how cells are squeezed ...

Researchers working at Institut Pasteur in France have found that the Ebola virus is mutating "a lot" causing concern in ...

Drugs for HIV have become adept at suppressing infection, but they still can’t eliminate it. That’s because the medication in ...

Last October, Google announced that it was working on magnetic nanoparticles that would seek out cancer cells in the bloodstream ...

A novel, bacteria-repelling coating material that could increase the success of medical implants has been created by researchers. The material ...

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan have succeeded in inducing human embryonic stem cells to self-organize ...

Capitalizing on a new insight into HIV's strategy for evading antibodies—proteins produced by the immune system to identify and wipe ...

Preventing inflammation in obese fat tissue may hold the key to preventing or even reversing type 2 diabetes, new research ...

A research group has revealed how a seemingly simple animal is able to produce nerve cells throughout its entire body. ...

Scientists have identified a gene that helps regulate how well nerves of the central nervous system are insulated, researchers at ...

The healthcare sector is not escaping from the revolution in information and communications technologies. Thanks to the latest advances in ...