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A commonly-used HIV drug has been shown to kill-off the human papilloma virus (HPV) that leads to cervical cancer in...

Researchers have developed the technology for a catheter-based device that would provide forward-looking, real-time, three-dimensional imaging from inside the heart,...

Although low temperature fuel cells powered by methanol or hydrogen have been well studied, existing low temperature fuel cell technologies...

One factor that makes glioblastoma cancers so difficult to treat is that malignant cells from the tumors spread throughout the...

It is a sad fact that old age brings diseases. Many may not be life-threatening, but they make life less...

One of science's strongest dogmas is that complex life on Earth could only evolve when oxygen levels in the atmosphere...

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have pinpointed why normal aging is accompanied by a diminished ability to...

One of the major problems in today’s society is the efficiency and cost of developing medicines to treat disease. The...

Testing the effects of drugs on a simulated brain could lead to breakthrough treatments for neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s,...

Second-year bioengineering doctoral student Sylvia Natividad-Diaz may have found a way around a persistent obstacle in the treatment of HIV/AIDS—identifying...

High-tech glasses developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may help surgeons visualize cancer cells, which glow...

For the first time, scientists at King’s College London have identified a gene linking the thickness of the grey matter...

In a study published today in Nature Communications, a research team led by Ken Shepard, professor of electrical engineering and...

In 2011, biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) demonstrated a highly effective method for delivering HIV-fighting antibodies to...

Metastasis, the spread of cancer cells from a primary tumour to different organs, is responsible for more than 90% of...

A cochlear implant that can be wirelessly recharged would use the natural microphone of the middle ear rather than a...

When President Barack Obama announced the $100 million neuroscience initiative called Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) in April,...

Human embryonic stem cells can be induced to spontaneously form developing brain tissue During development, the nervous system forms as...

An interdisciplinary study led by Dr Ali Tavassoli, a Reader in chemical biology at the University of Southampton, has shown...

A cure for type 1 diabetes has long eluded even the top experts. Not because they do not know what...