NEWS

A simple blood test* could pinpoint which children are unlikely to respond to treatment for a particularly aggressive form of...

In a study that began in a pair of infant siblings with a rare heart defect, Johns Hopkins researchers say...

Researchers have identified four biomarkers that help to identify people at high risk of dying from any disease within the...

Engineers in Italy have developed a wearable robot which they claim is the most sophisticated built in the world to...

It's long been a popular stereotype: Men are hugely competitive, meaning cooperative effort is the exception rather than the norm,...

In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they...

Columbia researchers develop a general optical imaging platform to examine activities of a broad range of small biomolecules in living...

Engineers like to make things that work. And if one wants to make something work using nanoscale components—the size of...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new device that...

Bionic dog can walk again after being fitted with prosthetics Naki’o, a mixed breed dog from Nebraska, has become the...

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded researchers at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, a €2.43million grant...

On February 25 and 26 the US Food and Drug Administration discussed the possibility of legalising three-parent embryos – or,...

Researchers at Princeton University have discovered the 3D structure of an enzyme that cuts to ribbons the genetic material of...

There are more than a trillion cells called neurons that form a labyrinth of connections in our brains. Each of...

London designer and researcher Shamees Aden is developing a concept for running shoes that would be 3D-printed from synthetic biological...

IBM’s Watson is one of the smartest computer systems on the planet: its advanced artificial intelligence can answer natural language...

Scientists at Imperial College London are aiming to cut the need to use animals in research by improving methods for...

In 3D, healthy hearts do their own version of the twist. Rather than a simple pumping action, they circulate blood...

Scientists at EPFL have greatly improved the effectiveness of growth factors, paving new strategies for regenerative medicine. When we are...

A team of Stanford Bio-X scientists has found the secret to how nerves withstand the wear and tear of bending...