Almost every biological process involves sensing the presence of a certain chemical. Finely tuned over millions of years of evolution,...

Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important step in understanding how hearts are formed in developing...

A new study led by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine has painted a clearer picture...

The latest organ-on-a-chip from Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering reproduces the structure, functions and cellular make-up of bone...

Most plants try to turn towards the sun. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg have worked with Finnish colleagues to...

Scientists from the University of Manchester have discovered that microbes in smaller groups are more likely to mutate, resulting in...

Developing and testing a new anti-cancer drug can cost billions of dollars and take many years of research. Finding an...

Something — or some things — in the blood of young mice has the ability to restore mental capabilities in...

In a new study published today in Cell Reports, scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center demonstrate that mice...

Damaged leg muscles grew stronger and showed signs of regeneration in three out of five men whose old injuries were...

Stem cells made from the skin of adult, infertile men yield primordial germ cells — cells that normally become sperm...

We may soon be able to make easy and early diagnoses of prostate cancer by smell. Investigators in Finland have...

Researchers have identified two types of neurons that enable the spinal cord to control skilled forelimb movement. The first is...

The human body produces chemical cues that communicate gender to members of the opposite sex, according to researchers who report...

Researchers have discovered that stem cells taken from teeth can grow to resemble brain cells, suggesting they could one day...

Johns Hopkins biochemists have figured out what is needed to activate and sustain the virus-fighting activity of an enzyme found...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering announced today that they have successfully grown fully functional human cartilage in vitro from human stem...

Tracing where your DNA was formed over 1,000 years ago is now possible due to a revolutionary technique developed by...

In the next few months, highly secretive US military researchers say they will unveil new advances toward developing a brain...

Our brain activity is more similar to that of speakers we are listening to when we can predict what they...