Brain cancer patients may live longer thanks to a new cancer-detection method developed by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute ...

Despite having a diameter tens of thousands of times smaller than a human hair, nanopores could be the next big ...

For patients with diabetes, insulin is critical to maintaining good health and normal blood-sugar levels. However, it’s not an ideal ...

A two-part water-based gel made of synthetic DNA could bring the Heriot-Watt inventors of a 3D bio printer closer to ...

On Valentine's Day, people who have been unlucky in love will be said to suffer from a "broken heart." Broken ...

Cell cultures used in biology and medical research may not act as a faithful mimic of real tissue, according to ...

University of North Carolina scientists have created a new research tool, based on the fruit fly, to help crack the ...

Harvesting sunlight is a trick plants mastered more than a billion years ago, using solar energy to feed themselves from ...

Imagine printing out molecules that can respond to their surroundings. A research project at the University of Washington merges custom ...

Anyone who's ever been to France knows it's a country that celebrates its food and takes enormous pride in not ...

A collaborative study led by scientists from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has revealed ...

NIBIB-funded researchers have developed a novel 3D vaccine that could provide a more effective way to harness the immune system ...

A good drug is hard to design: to garner FDA approval and reach consumers, it must not only effectively treat ...

By combining experimental data from X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, cryoelectron microscopy and lipidomics (the study of cellular lipid networks), researchers ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new drug to treat patients with advanced breast cancer, signaling a ...

How a brilliant-green sea slug manages to live for months at a time “feeding” on sunlight, like a plant, is ...

Many people imagine robots today as clunky, metal versions of humans, but scientists are forging new territory in the field ...

New research from scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) shows that the ...

Lungfish and salamanders can hear, despite not having an outer ear or tympanic middle ear. These early terrestrial vertebrates were ...

If you were about to enter a crowded subway during flu season, packed with people sneezing and coughing, wouldn't it ...