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What medications can be used to treat lung cancer, and how effective are they? Until now, drug companies have had...

A Harvard-led team is the first to demonstrate the ability to use low-power light to trigger stem cells inside the...

Like salmon traveling upstream to spawn, sperm cells are extremely efficient at swimming against the current, according to research to...

An international team of scientists has made a major step forward in our understanding of how enzymes ‘edit’ genes, paving...

Scientists from the University of Southampton, in collaboration with the Universities of Sheffield and Crete, have developed a new hybrid...

Using your brain – particularly during adolescence – may help brain cells survive and could impact how the brain functions...

Pilots of the future could be able to control their aircraft by merely thinking commands. Scientists of the Technische Universität...

For the first time researchers have succeeded in altering HIV virus particles so that they can simultaneously, as it were,...

Based on the mechanisms adopted by birds, bats, insects and snakes, 14 distinguished research teams have developed solutions to some...

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a signaling pathway in cancer cells that controls...

Dr. Erwin Berthier studied biomedical engineering because he wanted to change the world. Since he co-founded Tasso, Inc., his dream...

Neurons live for many years but their components, the proteins and molecules that make up the cell are continually being...

A new method of generating mature nerve cells from skin cells could greatly enhance understanding of neurodegenerative diseases, and could...

A recent study into the biomechanics of the necks of ants – a common insect that can amazingly lift objects...

For most paraplegic patients, being able to walk again remains a dream. The HAL robot suit can help them regain...

The scientific progress that has made it possible to dream of a future in which faulty organs could be regrown...

Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey shows that the ‘first in man’ series of vaccine injections given directly...

Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have built the smallest, fastest and...

Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have a potential solution for how to more effectively kill...

A wireless system developed by Assistant Professor Ada Poon uses the same power as a cell phone to safely transmit...