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Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital have found that fetal dopamine cells transplanted into the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease...

Rice University bioengineers are developing a simple, highly accurate test to detect signs of HIV and its progress in patients...

Researchers have discovered landmarks within pluripotent stem cells that guide how they develop to serve different purposes within the body....

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

In a paper published Thursday, June 5, in the journal Cell, Vanderbilt University researchers establish for the first time that...

Changes in coldness, creaminess or texture that we experience in the mouth while we are eating an ice cream can...

Researchers hope to unlock the potential of stem cells as a way of repairing neural damage to the brain. QUT’s...

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

Scientists at New York University and the University of Melbourne have developed a method using DNA origami to turn one-dimensional...

Children who are physically fit have faster and more robust neuro-electrical brain responses during reading than their less-fit peers, researchers...

As far back as 1948, Erwin Schrödinger—the inventor of modern quantum mechanics—published the book “What is life?” Dr David Turton,...

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...

New research from North Carolina State University pinpoints the areas of the cerebral cortex that are affected in mice with...

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

In a new study, published in this week’s issue of the journal Science, researchers show for the first time how...

A specially-bred strain of miniature swine lacking the molecule responsible for the rapid rejection of pig-to-primate organ transplants may provide...

The tangled highway of blood vessels that twists and turns inside our bodies, delivering essential nutrients and disposing of hazardous...

The overall number and nature of mutations—rather than the presence of any single mutation—influences an individual’s risk of developing schizophrenia,...