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Practitioners of DNA origami have spent the better part of the past decade folding the molecule into minuscule smiley faces,...

The ability to short-circuit debilitating tremors in disease states with implantable stimulators is nothing short of remarkable. The same can...

Scientists have made a step forward in their ability to mimic the sense of touch.A team from the US and...

Reporting in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Tomás González-Villa and colleagues devised a recipe for improving beer foam....

A study at UW-Madison is the first to show that human stem cells can successfully implant themselves in the brain...

Genetically engineered immune cells can drive an aggressive type of leukaemia into retreat, a small clinical trial suggests. The results...

For the first time, scientists reporting in Nature Medicine have created lab-grown kidneys in rats that produce urine after transplantation....

Better diagnosis and treatment of cancer could hinge on the ability to better understand a single cell at its molecular...

The effort is part of a sweeping movement to grab hold of our genetic data and directly improve the way...

The researchers have engineered small molecules that support long-lived quantum coherences. Coherences are the macroscopically observable behavior of quantum superpositions....

But in low doses, hydrogen sulfide could greatly enhance plant growth, leading to a sharp increase in global food supplies...

Their discovery in mice is likely to further fuel a recent scramble by researchers to identify roles for long-neglected bits...

  Researchers at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine have discovered a technique that directly converts skin cells to the...

For the first time, scientists reporting in Nature Medicine have created lab-grown kidneys in rats that produce urine after transplantation. 

The creation of the first complete visual map of the telomerase enzyme, which is known to play a significant role...

  The stunning video embedded in this post illustrates a new way of looking at the brain. Scientists at Stanford...

  Using a miniature electronic device implanted in the brain, scientists have tapped into the internal reward system of mice,...

  A new separation process that depends on an easily-distinguished physical difference in adhesive forces among cells could help expand...

At some point, scientists may be able to bring back extinct animals, and perhaps early humans, raising questions of ethics...

In what might be the first documented case of technologically-assisted interspecies telepathy, an international team of researchers has successfully created...