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In laboratory tests, researchers have used electrical stimulation of retinal cells to produce the same patterns of activity that occur...

One of the biggest challenges for medical researchers studying the effectiveness of stem cell therapies is that transplants or grafts...

Tweaking a protein expressed by most liver cancer cells has enabled scientists to make a vaccine that is exceedingly effective...

A team of researchers at the University of Twente (Netherlands) and German University in Cairo (Egypt) has developed sperm-inspired microrobots,...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have erased and reactivated memories in rats, profoundly altering...

A test of organic compounds in exhaled breath can not only distinguish patients with lung cancer from patients with chronic...

Molecular ‘fingerprint’ for tissue taken from first isotope-enriched mouse has huge potential for scientific breakthroughs, as well as improved medical...

While it seems like restoring blood flow to an injured leg would be a good thing, it can actually cause...

Using new stem cell technology, scientists at the Salk Institute have shown that neurons generated from the skin cells of...

Programming living cells offers the prospect of harnessing sophisticated biological machinery for transformative applications in energy, agriculture, water remediation and...

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have engineered a bacterium whose genetic material includes an added pair of DNA...

Rice University bioengineers have created a hydrogel that instantly turns from liquid to semisolid at close to body temperature –...

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have taken a very important step towards understanding cell reprogramming...

It's about the size of a large vitamin pill and, for the first time in Ohio, the smallest heart pacemaker...