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Last October, Google announced that it was working on magnetic nanoparticles that would seek out cancer cells in the bloodstream...

A novel, bacteria-repelling coating material that could increase the success of medical implants has been created by researchers. The material...

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan have succeeded in inducing human embryonic stem cells to self-organize...

Capitalizing on a new insight into HIV's strategy for evading antibodies—proteins produced by the immune system to identify and wipe...

Preventing inflammation in obese fat tissue may hold the key to preventing or even reversing type 2 diabetes, new research...

A research group has revealed how a seemingly simple animal is able to produce nerve cells throughout its entire body....

Scientists have identified a gene that helps regulate how well nerves of the central nervous system are insulated, researchers at...

The healthcare sector is not escaping from the revolution in information and communications technologies. Thanks to the latest advances in...

People who carry a variant of a gene that is associated with longevity also have larger volumes in a front...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have shown that a micromotor fueled by stomach acid can take a...

When a salamander loses a tail, it grows a new one. What’s the difference, biologist Peter Reddien wondered, between a...

Your brain transmits information about your current location and memories of past locations over the same neural pathways using different...

In a new study from Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), researchers have used human pluripotent stem cells to generate new...

The creation of genetically modified and entirely synthetic organisms continues to generate excitement as well as worry. Scientists have genetically...