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3-D printing used to construct everything from art to toys to spare parts for the space station may one day ...

Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified an important step toward potentially shutting down the growth of prostate cancer ...

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and Vanderbilt University have created the most detailed 3-D picture yet of a ...

Jason Barnes's prosthetic arm will let him live his drumming dream in his first gig this month – but it ...

Like a silent bionic army, the era of the cyborg has crept upon us. Like a silent bionic army, the ...

A novel approach to cancer immunotherapy – strategies designed to induce the immune system to attack cancer cells – may ...

How do we “know” from the movements of speeding car in our field of view if it’s coming straight toward ...

Exciting research suggests that a shot every one to three months may someday give an alternative to the daily pills ...

Research team paves way to scale up manufacturing of large objects using a fully compostable bioplastic made from shrimp shells ...

A new study led by the University of Melbourne and Orygen Youth Health Research Centre is the first to discover ...

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has induced human embryonic stem cells (hESC) to differentiate toward pure-population, mature heart ...

A simple blood test* could pinpoint which children are unlikely to respond to treatment for a particularly aggressive form of ...

In a study that began in a pair of infant siblings with a rare heart defect, Johns Hopkins researchers say ...

Researchers have identified four biomarkers that help to identify people at high risk of dying from any disease within the ...

Engineers in Italy have developed a wearable robot which they claim is the most sophisticated built in the world to ...

It's long been a popular stereotype: Men are hugely competitive, meaning cooperative effort is the exception rather than the norm, ...

In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they ...

Columbia researchers develop a general optical imaging platform to examine activities of a broad range of small biomolecules in living ...