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A clinical trial led by University of Leicester respiratory experts into a potentially ground-breaking ‘breath test’ to detect lung cancer...

The first comprehensive computer model to simulate the development of blood cells could help in the development of new treatments...

Scientists have shown that gold nanotubes have many applications in fighting cancer: internal nanoprobes for high-resolution imaging; drug delivery vehicles;...

A multi-institutional team of hearing and communication experts led by the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern...

According to a multinational clinical trial involving nearly 20,000 young women, the human papilloma virus vaccine, Cervarix, not only has...

Researcher discovers that squid recode their genetic make-up on-the-fly to adjust to their surroundings The principle of adaptation — the...

Scrolls thousands of years old provide us with a glimpse into long-forgotten cultures and the knowledge of our ancestors. In...

Researchers working at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have captured the first X-ray portraits of living bacteria....

After using optical tweezers to squeeze a tiny bead attached to the outside of a human stem cell, researchers now...

Brain cancer patients may live longer thanks to a new cancer-detection method developed by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute...

Despite having a diameter tens of thousands of times smaller than a human hair, nanopores could be the next big...

For patients with diabetes, insulin is critical to maintaining good health and normal blood-sugar levels. However, it’s not an ideal...

A two-part water-based gel made of synthetic DNA could bring the Heriot-Watt inventors of a 3D bio printer closer to...

On Valentine's Day, people who have been unlucky in love will be said to suffer from a "broken heart." Broken...

Cell cultures used in biology and medical research may not act as a faithful mimic of real tissue, according to...

University of North Carolina scientists have created a new research tool, based on the fruit fly, to help crack the...

Harvesting sunlight is a trick plants mastered more than a billion years ago, using solar energy to feed themselves from...

Imagine printing out molecules that can respond to their surroundings. A research project at the University of Washington merges custom...

Anyone who's ever been to France knows it's a country that celebrates its food and takes enormous pride in not...

A collaborative study led by scientists from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has revealed...