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An artificial heart containing miniaturised space technology will soon beat inside a person, having now been approved for human trials...

A new nerve interface can simulate a sense of touch from 20 spots on a prosthetic hand. There have been...

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have discovered that the skin is capable of communicating with the liver. The...

Scientists at Rutgers University have developed a targeted drug delivery system that they believe could make ovarian cancer more treatable...

In search of better cancer treatments, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have designed synthetic molecules...

New research by University of Vermont Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. Jeffrey Spees, and colleagues has identified a new tool...

The secret to building brain-controlled prostheses may be to ignore the brain entirely.In the past several years scientists have delivered...

Get ready: The "new genetics" promises to change faulty genes of future generations by introducing new, functioning genes using "designer...

A hand-held ''bio pen'' developed in Wollongong will allow surgeons to draw regenerating bone material directly on to the body....

A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team reports today that the brain can produce and release estrogen -- a discovery that...

A multidisciplinary team of scientists from Spanish universities and research centres, among which is the University of Valencia, has managed...

A new brain connectivity study from Penn Medicine published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found...

For the first time, scientists have succeeded in transforming human stem cells into functional lung and airway cells. The advance,...

Lab mice trained to fear a particular smell can transfer the impulse to their unborn sons and grandsons through a...

Drugs delivered by nanoparticles hold promise for targeted treatment of many diseases, including cancer. However, the particles have to be...

After a diving accident left Jason DiSanto paralyzed from the neck down in 2009, he had to learn how to...

Stanford researchers have received Bio-X funding to develop a tiny moving probe to study the mechanical properties of sensory cells...

MIT chemical engineers have developed a novel way to generate nanoparticles that can recognize specific molecules, opening up a new...

Viruses are as simple as they are "smart": too elementary to be able to reproduce by themselves, they exploit the...

The blood stem cells that live in bone marrow are at the top of a complex family tree. Such stem...