Credit: Qing Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences New research led by Professor Cathie Martin of the John Innes Centre has ...

It’s been known for more than a century that acetaminophen is an effective painkiller, but according to a new U ...

Some cells are meant to live, and some are meant to die. The linker cell of Caenorhabditis elegans, a tiny ...

The recent epidemic of Zika virus infections in South and Latin America has raised serious concerns on its ramifications for ...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – The Zika virus may be associated with an autoimmune disorder that attacks the brain’s myelin similar ...

Credit: Tara Brown Photography/University of Washington Technology companies routinely build sprawling data centers to store all the baby pictures, financial ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Tissue engineering is a process that uses novel biomaterials seeded with stem cells to grow and replace ...

Transplantation of genetically modified cells carrying a transgene has a greater stimulating effect on the regeneration of post-traumatic central nervous ...

The prevailing hypothesis has suggested that the the functions of DNA, such as the way the DNA is organized, largely ...

Blue on, yellow off: using different-coloured light, researchers are able to switch signalling pathways in the brain on and off. ...

Newcastle scientists and medics have developed a new type of genetic blood test that diagnoses scarring in the liver – ...

Using your skin as a touchscreen has been brought a step closer after UK scientists successfully created tactile sensations on ...

Like jewels in a vault, our precious genetic material is stored in the nucleus of a cell–sequestered away from potentially ...

Boston — Blood-contacting implantable medical devices, such as stents, heart valves, ventricular assist devices, and extracorporeal support systems, as well ...

Throughout our cells, materials are continuously transported via tiny packets called vesicles. This process is called intracellular trafficking and it ...

New, ultra-high-field magnetic resonance images (MRI) of the brain by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago provide the ...

Researchers in Japan have found, for the first time in vertebrates, a genetic switch that determines whether germ cells become ...

A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge has described for the first time in humans how the ...

A new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine found that synchronized physiological interactions between remote brain ...

The research group, led by Dr. Christina Scheel, developed an assay whereby cultured human breast epithelial cells rebuild the three-dimensional ...