Regenerative medicine is based on the ability of stem cells to repair tissue damage. The regenerative capacity of endogenous stem ...

A team of researchers working at the University of Colorado has found that human stem cells appear to remember the ...

It's a jungle in there. In the tightly woven ecosystem of the human gut, trillions of bacteria compete with each ...

The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology ...

Nanotechnology could turn shrubbery into supercharged energy producers or sensors for explosives. Imaging the fluorescence of carbon nanotubes inside leaves ...

Capitalizing on the ability of an organism to evolve in response to punishment from a hostile environment, scientists have coaxed ...

Your brain's ability to instantly link what you see with what you do is down to a dedicated information 'highway', ...

Study shows that fixation devices derived from silkworm silk are potentially attractive alternatives to metal and synthetic-based systems When a ...

Team of researchers searched for the foundations of manic-depressive disorder in about 24,000 people First on top of the world ...

Soft robots — which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels — ...

When Manu Prakash, PhD, wants to impress lab visitors with the durability of his Origami-based paper microscope, he throws it ...

The King lab, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, is seeking a creative, motivated, ...

It may be the birth of a new supermaterial – not long ago, spider silk materials were considered science fiction. ...

Intelligent people are more likely to trust others, while those who score lower on measures of intelligence are less likely ...

Although choosing to do something because the perceived benefit outweighs the financial cost is something people do daily, little is ...

Researchers at UC Berkeley found that an electrical current can be used to orchestrate the flow of a group of ...

Medical implants, complex interfaces between brain and machine or remotely controlled insects: Recent developments combining machines and organisms have great ...

A co-author of a Japanese study that promised a revolutionary way to create stem cells has called for the headline-grabbing ...

There have been plenty of fad diets that captured the public's imagination over the years, but Harvard scientists have identified ...

Fresh banana, a waft of flowers, blueberry: the scents in Shota Atsumi's laboratory in the UC Davis Department of Chemistry ...