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Motion-Sensing Cells in the Eye Let the Brain ‘Know’ About Directional Changes
How do we “know” from the movements of speeding car in our field of view if it’s coming straight toward...
Studies show big promise for HIV prevention drug
Exciting research suggests that a shot every one to three months may someday give an alternative to the daily pills...
Manufacturing a solution to planet-clogging plastics
Research team paves way to scale up manufacturing of large objects using a fully compostable bioplastic made from shrimp shells...
Brain development provides insights into adolescent depression
A new study led by the University of Melbourne and Orygen Youth Health Research Centre is the first to discover...
Stem cell advance yields mature heart muscle cells
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has induced human embryonic stem cells (hESC) to differentiate toward pure-population, mature heart...
Simple blood test could improve treatment for deadly childhood cancer
A simple blood test* could pinpoint which children are unlikely to respond to treatment for a particularly aggressive form of...
Researchers find protein ‘switch’ central to heart cell division
In a study that began in a pair of infant siblings with a rare heart defect, Johns Hopkins researchers say...
Novel blood screen reveals risk of dying
Researchers have identified four biomarkers that help to identify people at high risk of dying from any disease within the...
Rise of the human exoskeletons
Engineers in Italy have developed a wearable robot which they claim is the most sophisticated built in the world to...
Study finds less cooperation among women than among men where hierarchy is involved
It's long been a popular stereotype: Men are hugely competitive, meaning cooperative effort is the exception rather than the norm,...
A Powerful New Way to Edit DNA
In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they...
Imaging dynamics of small biomolecules inside live cells
Columbia researchers develop a general optical imaging platform to examine activities of a broad range of small biomolecules in living...
Building Artificial Cells Will Be a Noisy Business
Engineers like to make things that work. And if one wants to make something work using nanoscale components—the size of...
Revolutionary membrane can keep your heart beating perfectly forever
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new device that...
World’s First ‘Bionic’ Dog
Bionic dog can walk again after being fitted with prosthetics Naki’o, a mixed breed dog from Nebraska, has become the...
Building a 3D model of ovarian cancer
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded researchers at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, a €2.43million grant...
FDA to study “three-parent embryos”
On February 25 and 26 the US Food and Drug Administration discussed the possibility of legalising three-parent embryos – or,...
It slices, it dices, and it protects the body from harm
Researchers at Princeton University have discovered the 3D structure of an enzyme that cuts to ribbons the genetic material of...
Watching how the brain works
There are more than a trillion cells called neurons that form a labyrinth of connections in our brains. Each of...
Self-repairing running shoes 3D-printed from biological cells
London designer and researcher Shamees Aden is developing a concept for running shoes that would be 3D-printed from synthetic biological...