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Networked nerve cells are the control center of organisms. In a nematode, 300 nerve cells are sufficient to initiate complex...

In the future, the clothes you wear could be made from sugar. Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology...

A new discovery suggests it could one day be possible to chemically reprogram and repair damaged nerves after spinal cord...

A Japanese government-funded laboratory says it has found data in a widely heralded stem-cell research paper was falsified, holding one...

The code for every gene includes a message at the end of it that signals the translation machinery to stop....

A newborn baby, for all its cooing cuddliness, is a data acquisition machine, absorbing information to finish honing the job...

Bioengineers have grown living skeletal muscle that looks a lot like the real thing. It contracts powerfully and rapidly, integrates...

Scientists at The University of Nottingham have developed a new substance which could simplify the manufacture of cell therapy in...

Medical engineers said Sunday they had created a device the size of a plaster which can monitor patients by tracking...

Cybathlon, a Swiss-hosted Olympics for bionic athletes, will be held in October 2016.The Cybathlon is a championship for racing pilots...

An Oregon Health & Science University scientist has been able to make embryonic stem cells from adult mouse body cells...

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston by growing vaginal skin cells outside the body and studying...

In a recent paper in Nature Communications, researchers from Ghent University report on a novel paradigm to do optical information...

A new technique which could revolutionise the treatment of epilepsy is to be tested thanks to a £10 million grant...

An international team of scientists led by Jef Boeke, PhD, director of NYU Langone Medical Center’s Institute for Systems Genetics,...

Neural probe arrays are expected to significantly benefit the lives of amputees and people affected by spinal cord injuries or...

A future computer might be a lot slimier than the solid silicon devices we have today. In a study published...

A Large international consortium of researchers has produced the first comprehensive, detailed map of the way genes work across the...

Significant progress toward creating "homo minutus" -- a benchtop human -- was reported at the Society of Toxicology meeting on...

Imagine a day when a form of artificial intelligence could deliver a speech as compelling as one given by a...