A new method of generating mature nerve cells from skin cells could greatly enhance understanding of neurodegenerative diseases, and could ...

A recent study into the biomechanics of the necks of ants – a common insect that can amazingly lift objects ...

For most paraplegic patients, being able to walk again remains a dream. The HAL robot suit can help them regain ...

The scientific progress that has made it possible to dream of a future in which faulty organs could be regrown ...

Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey shows that the ‘first in man’ series of vaccine injections given directly ...

Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have built the smallest, fastest and ...

Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have a potential solution for how to more effectively kill ...

A wireless system developed by Assistant Professor Ada Poon uses the same power as a cell phone to safely transmit ...

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 ...