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When you look at the hands of a clock or the streets on a map, your brain is effortlessly performing...

What sounds like a dream of the future has already been the subject of research for a few years: simply...

Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego have created a new method for analyzing RNA transcripts from samples of...

In medicine, the printers are already making prosthetic hands, hearing aid cases and parts of human ears. This riboflavin-rich material...

Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when nudging mature cells...

The poster child for basic research might well be a one-celled green algae found in ordinary lakes and ponds. Amazingly,...

In two parallel projects, researchers have created new genomes inside the bacterium E. coli in ways that test the limits...

Our ability to grasp and manipulate objects relies on feedback from our sense of touch. Without these signals from the...

A brain region activated when people are asked to perform mathematical calculations in an experimental setting is similarly activated when...

Thirty-four million people are living with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, worldwide and each year some 2.5 million more are...

The medical, humanitarian and economical impact of viral diseases is devastating to humans and livestock. There are no adequate therapies...

The human brain keeps changing throughout a person's lifetime. New connections are continually created while synapses that are no longer...

A new technique developed by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine could pave the way to an era...

Dengue fever, an infectious tropical disease found in more than 100 countries, has no cure and no vaccine. One reason...

Scientists have revealed nearly 100 genetic variants implicated in the development of cancers such as breast cancer and prostate cancer....

University of South Florida researchers have suggested a new view of how stem cells may help repair the brain following...

It's like pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Researchers have reached inside the brain of a rat and pulled...

Naked mole rats have what any animal would want. They live long lives -- about 30 years -- and stay...

Similar to using Python or Java to write code for a computer, chemists soon could be able to use a...

Scientists have moved closer to developing a universal flu vaccine after using the 2009 pandemic as a natural experiment to...