It’s a familiar scenario – a patient receives a medical implant and days later, the body attacks the artificial valve...

When cells suffer too much DNA damage, they are usually forced to undergo programmed cell death, or apoptosis. However, cancer...

Your brain often works on autopilot when it comes to grammar. That theory has been around for years, but University...

Genes make up about 2 percent of the human genome. The rest consists of a genetic material known as noncoding...

The Centre for Blast Injury Studies and the Department of Bioengineering wish to appoint an outstanding individual who will establish...

The US team fitted two rats with devices called brain-to-brain interfaces that let the animals collaborate on simple tasks to...

Two Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers — a stem cell biologist and a practicing cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s...

Although there are medications that can compensate for the loss of female sex hormone production, the drugs are often not...

In the middle of the South Atlantic, there’s a patch of sea almost devoid of life. There are no birds,...

Georgia Tech engineers and Emory University clinicians have successfully engrafted insulin-producing cells into a diabetic mouse model, reversing diabetic symptoms...

The sun provides the most abundant source of energy on the planet. However, only a tiny fraction of the solar...

Researchers have turned conventional DVDs into portable and cheap diagnostic tools for developing countries, and are now adapting their prototype...

The David H. Murdock Research Institute in Kannapolis received a $50 million gift Wednesday from its founder, David Murdock. The...

Bioengineered spider protein could be the start of a new generation of anti-venom vaccines, potentially saving thousands of lives worldwide....

Society is increasingly becoming more data-driven. Noting the power of vast reservoirs of public information, the federal government launched the...

University of Washington engineers and NanoFacture, a Bellevue, Wash., company, have created a device that can extract human DNA from...

Second Sight Medical Products in Sylmar has won approval from the FDA to sell its bionic eye, which helps people...

A massive study analyzing gene expression data from 22 tumor types has identified multiple metabolic expression changes associated with cancer....

The human body contains trillions of cells, all derived from a single cell, or zygote, made by the fusion of...

New brain-machine interfaces that exploit the plasticity of the brain may allow people to control prosthetic devices in a natural...