Eve, an artificially-intelligent 'robot scientist' could make drug discovery faster and much cheaper, say researchers writing in the Royal Society ...

Magnetoception is a sense which allows bacteria, insects and even vertebrates like birds and sharks to detect magnetic fields for ...

The thousands of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) molecules present in each cell are known primarily for their role converting food and ...

MPs in Britain have voted for the use of controversial techniques to create babies from the DNA of three people. ...

By combining micro-imprinting and electro-spinning techniques, researchers at Shanghai University’s Rapid Manufacturing Engineering Center have developed a vascular graft composed ...

A team of international scientists has discovered a new mechanism by which immune cells in the skin function act as ...

No one had checked before, but RNA, the nucleic acid involved in many cell functions including protein synthesis, appears to ...

Researchers revamp a common “data structure” so that it will work with multicore chips. Every undergraduate computer-science major takes a ...

The first results from a trial of a candidate Ebola vaccine at Oxford University suggest the vaccine has an acceptable ...

In medical research, animal-based experiments have thus far been a necessary evil. Fraunhofer researchers have developed a highly promising alternative, ...

You may remember neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis — he built the brain-controlled exoskeleton that allowed a paralyzed man to kick the ...

Glue can be modified for optimal performance in different types of diseased tissue. After undergoing surgery to remove diseased sections ...

Scientists have identified a biological clock that provides vital clues about how long a person is likely to live. Researchers ...

Together, obesity and Type 2 diabetes rank among our nation’s greatest health problem, and they largely result from what many ...

Three-dimensional printing technology can make surgery safer for children with congenital heart disease and reduce the duration as well as ...

During the past two years I have come to realise that the PhD experience varies wildly across the humanities and ...

There is no rest for a baby's brain - not even in sleep. While infants sleep they are reprocessing what ...

A researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology has discovered a bacterium that can produce hydrogen, an element that ...

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have found that defects in how cells are squeezed ...

Researchers working at Institut Pasteur in France have found that the Ebola virus is mutating "a lot" causing concern in ...