A highly accurate model of how neurons behave when performing complex movements could aid in the design of robotic limbs ...

Scientists have known for decades that cancer can be caused by genetic mutations, but more recently they have discovered that ...

A laboratory study led by scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes ...

How nerve cells within the brain communicate with each other over long distances has puzzled scientists for decades. The way ...

Researchers at the University of Milan in Italy have shown that a synthetic protein called AGMA1 has the potential to ...

Stimulating a particular region in the brain via non-invasive delivery of electrical current using magnetic pulses, called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, ...

Johns Hopkins stem cell biologists have found a way to reprogram a patient’s skin cells into cells that mimic and ...

Human articular cartilage defects can be treated with nasal septum cells. Researchers at the University and the University Hospital of ...

Most memories have some kind of emotion associated with them: Recalling the week you just spent at the beach probably ...

The first memory-enhancing devices could be implanted within four years Lawrence Livermore engineer Vanessa Tolosa holds up a silicon wafer ...

Lowering internal eye pressure is currently the only way to treat glaucoma. A tiny eye implant developed by Stephen Quake's ...

Acoustic device that separates tumor cells from blood cells could help assess cancer’s spread. Photo Credit: Illustration Christine Daniloff/MIT Researchers ...

Researchers at the Gladstone Institutes and University of California, San Francisco have shown that a loss of cells in the ...

A microscopic obstacle course of carefully spaced pillars enables researchers to observe cancer cells directly as they break away from ...

As children shift from counting on their fingers to remembering math facts, the hippocampus and its functional circuits support the ...

A single factor can reset the immune system of mice to a state likely similar to what it was 500 ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used a computer-aided design tool to create genetic languages ...

cientists at Washington State University have identified a crucial step in DNA repair that could lead to targeted gene therapy ...

MIT chemical engineers have devised a new implantable tissue scaffold coated with bone growth factors that are released slowly over ...

Imitation, they say, is the sincerest form of flattery, but mimicking the intricate networks and dynamic interactions that are inherent ...