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Engineers have transformed the genome of the bacterium E. coli into a long-term storage device for memory. They envision that...

Is it possible to change the amount of information the brain can store? Maybe, according to a new international study...

Stanching the free flow of blood from an injury remains a holy grail of clinical medicine. Controlling blood flow is...

A University of Utah study of two African tribes found evidence that men evolved better navigation ability than women because...

In an unexpected mashup of financial and mechanical engineering, researchers have discovered that the same modeling used to forecast fluctuations...

An electronic "tongue" could one day sample food and drinks as a quality check before they hit store shelves. Or...

Medicine is drifting towards a major problem. An increasing number of bacteria is no longer sensitive to known antibiotics. Doctors...

For detecting cancer, manual breast exams seem low-tech compared to other methods such as MRI. But scientists are now developing...

The loss of eyesight, often caused by retinal degeneration, is a life-altering health issue for many people, especially as they...

New Weizmann Institute research may bring the idea of sleep learning one step closer to reality. The research, which appeared...

Researchers have developed a potential new weapon in the fight against cancer: a daisy-shaped drug carrier that’s many thousands of...

It sounds like something from the scene in Star Wars where Master Yoda instructs the young Luke Skywalker to use...

People with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are at increased risk of converting to Alzheimer's disease within a few years, but...

Imagine being able to recognize your car as your own but never being able to remember where you parked it....

The motor neurons that innervate muscle fibres are essential for motor activity. Their degeneration in many diseases causes paralysis and...

A team of scientists led by The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute successfully created a human stem...

How do we know where we are? How can we find the way from one place to another? And how...

Researchers have brought ultra-fast, nano-scale data storage within striking reach, using technology that mimics the human brain. Dr Sharath Sriram,...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that a region on the front surface of the eye harbours special...

Just look into the light: not quite, but researchers at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology...