What would Stuart Little make of it? Mice have been created whose brains are half human. As a result, the ...

Pilots are trained to guard against vertigo: a sudden loss of the sense of vertical direction that renders them unable ...

Any science textbook will tell you we can’t see infrared light. Like X-rays and radio waves, infrared light waves are ...

Researchers at Université Laval's Faculty of Science and Engineering and Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers have developed smart textiles ...

When it comes to getting out of a tricky situation, we humans have an evolutionary edge over other primates. Take, ...

Festival of Neuroscience will highlight some of the best research into the brain and nervous system in a conference with ...

Bioengineers have created a new computer model that allows them to design the most complex three-dimensional DNA shapes ever produced, ...

Genome engineering with the RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas9 system in animals and plants is changing biology. It is easier to use and ...

Researchers are using computed tomography (CT) and 3-D printing technology to recreate life-size models of patients' heads to assist in ...

Although prostate cancer can be successfully treated in many men, when the disease metastasizes to the bone, it is eventually ...

Humans don’t like being alone, and their genes are no different. Together we are stronger, and the two versions of ...

Researchers from the University of Dresden have used embryonic stem cells to grow an intact spinal cord in a petri ...

Development of the cerebral cortex is influenced by genetic cues and communication between neurons and progenitors. Fluorescence microscopy image of ...

The ruby red rows of tomatoes at the local grocery store don’t come off the vine in such a pretty ...

The new transport system for DNA vaccines could help treat HIV, malaria, HPV and other major illnesses University at Buffalo ...

The nervous system may play a bigger role in infections and autoimmune diseases than previously known. If researchers can learn ...

Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have made a breakthrough in developing a new therapy for advanced bladder cancer ...

In recent years it has been established that copper plays an essential role in the health of the human brain. ...

Alastair Gee: "In the future, how will we define meat?" Featured illustration by Emily Pidgeon/TED. At home one night earlier ...