NEWS

New brain-machine interfaces that exploit the plasticity of the brain may allow people to control prosthetic devices in a natural...

A key type of human brain cell developed in the laboratory grows seamlessly when transplanted into the brains of mice,...

These nanosponges, which thus far have been studied in mice, can neutralize “pore-forming toxins,” which destroy cells by poking holes...

When molecular biology methods failed her, Sangeeta Bhatia turned to engineering and microfabrication to build a liver from scratch.Liver cells...

Last summer, in a Harvard robotics laboratory, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paper clip, weighing less...

Practitioners of DNA origami have spent the better part of the past decade folding the molecule into minuscule smiley faces,...

The ability to short-circuit debilitating tremors in disease states with implantable stimulators is nothing short of remarkable. The same can...

Scientists have made a step forward in their ability to mimic the sense of touch.A team from the US and...

Reporting in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Tomás González-Villa and colleagues devised a recipe for improving beer foam....

A study at UW-Madison is the first to show that human stem cells can successfully implant themselves in the brain...

Genetically engineered immune cells can drive an aggressive type of leukaemia into retreat, a small clinical trial suggests. The results...

For the first time, scientists reporting in Nature Medicine have created lab-grown kidneys in rats that produce urine after transplantation....

Better diagnosis and treatment of cancer could hinge on the ability to better understand a single cell at its molecular...

The effort is part of a sweeping movement to grab hold of our genetic data and directly improve the way...