For the first time scientists have been able to restore the ability to grasp with a paralysed hand using spinal...

Doctors and scientists in Southampton have completed their first hip surgery with a 3D printed implant and bone stem cell...

Researchers at MIT and the University of Vienna have created an imaging system that reveals neural activity throughout the brains...

Dogs can be trained to sniff out evidence of prostate cancer in human urine with near-perfect accuracy, Italian researchers report....

Molecular ‘fingerprint’ for tissue taken from first isotope-enriched mouse has huge potential for scientific breakthroughs, as well as improved medical...

Mice severely disabled by a multiple sclerosis (MS) – like condition could walk less than two weeks following treatment with...

Researchers have shown for the first time in an animal that is more closely related to humans that it is...

A vaccine or other therapy directed at a single site on a surface protein of HIV could in principle neutralize...

Current computing is based on binary logic – zeroes and ones – also called Boolean computing. A new type of...

While it seems like restoring blood flow to an injured leg would be a good thing, it can actually cause...

Using new stem cell technology, scientists at the Salk Institute have shown that neurons generated from the skin cells of...

New research has found novel factors that affect the ability of fungi to be incorporated into microbial communities within the...

A U.S. and Korean research team has developed a chip-like device that could be scaled up to sort and store...

Genetic material hitchhiking in our cells may shape physical traits more than we thought. In 2003, when the human genome...