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Cell therapies may stop or reverse the pain and disability of degenerative disc disease and the loss of material between...

Artificial blood vessels which can survive in the body for up to nine months have been created from stem cells...

Proper tissue function and regeneration is supported by stem cells, which reside in so-called niches. New work from Carnegie’s Yixian...

Researchers led by Adrian Liston at VIB and the University of Leuven have discovered the genes that control the number...

Introductory chemistry students learn that oil and water repel each other. So do other hydrophobic substances, which carry no electric...

Researchers have long searched for a durable artificial heart that can work as efficiently as the one supplied by nature....

Spanish researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have found that during the early stages of mammalian development,...

Scientists have created genetically-engineered mice with artificial human chromosomes in every cell of their bodies, as part of a series...

Only three months after she became the youngest person to receive a bioengineered organ, two-year-old Hannah Warren has died. In...

Chemists from North Carolina State University have performed a DNA-based logic-gate operation within a human cell. The research may pave...

International team will synthesise genome of brewer's yeast with a view to creating strains that make biofuel, vaccines and drugs...

A collaborative formed by Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, has found full genome sequencing examining...

A new combination of tissue engineering techniques could reduce the need for nerve grafts, according to new research by The...

Among the increasingly valuable roles fungi are playing in the biotechnology industry is their ability to produce enzymes capable of...

Two men with HIV have been off AIDS drugs for several months after receiving stem-cell transplants for cancer that appear...

Using tiny gold particles and a kind of resin, a team of scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has...

As a cell’s central power plant, the mitochondrion is a busy place. Specially-coded proteins from the nucleus are constantly being...

Doris Taylor doesn't take it as an insult when people call her Dr Frankenstein. “It was actually one of the...

Researchers at Princeton University have grown a bionic ear that can pick up radio waves and translate them into sound....

Swedish and Spanish engineers have created a system of sensors that detects fruit odours more effectively than the human sense...