When you look at the hands of a clock or the streets on a map, your brain is effortlessly performing...

What sounds like a dream of the future has already been the subject of research for a few years: simply...

Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego have created a new method for analyzing RNA transcripts from samples of...

In medicine, the printers are already making prosthetic hands, hearing aid cases and parts of human ears. This riboflavin-rich material...

Bioengineers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Laser Zentrum Hannover have discovered...

Embracing the idea that molecules can be programmed much like a computer, researchers can now perform remarkable feats on a...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) causes progressive paralysis by destroying nerve cells and the spinal cord. It interrupts vision, balance and even...

Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when nudging mature cells...

The poster child for basic research might well be a one-celled green algae found in ordinary lakes and ponds. Amazingly,...

In two parallel projects, researchers have created new genomes inside the bacterium E. coli in ways that test the limits...

Our ability to grasp and manipulate objects relies on feedback from our sense of touch. Without these signals from the...

A brain region activated when people are asked to perform mathematical calculations in an experimental setting is similarly activated when...

Thirty-four million people are living with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, worldwide and each year some 2.5 million more are...

The medical, humanitarian and economical impact of viral diseases is devastating to humans and livestock. There are no adequate therapies...

Pointing to a Nike Flyknit Racer -- the lime-green trainers, worn by many athletes during London 2012, that use a...

The human brain keeps changing throughout a person's lifetime. New connections are continually created while synapses that are no longer...

A new technique developed by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine could pave the way to an era...

Damaged or diseased organs may someday be healed with an injection of blood vessel cells, eliminating the need for donated...

Dengue fever, an infectious tropical disease found in more than 100 countries, has no cure and no vaccine. One reason...