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A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has induced human embryonic stem cells (hESC) to differentiate toward pure-population, mature heart...

A simple blood test* could pinpoint which children are unlikely to respond to treatment for a particularly aggressive form of...

In a study that began in a pair of infant siblings with a rare heart defect, Johns Hopkins researchers say...

Researchers have identified four biomarkers that help to identify people at high risk of dying from any disease within the...

Engineers in Italy have developed a wearable robot which they claim is the most sophisticated built in the world to...

It's long been a popular stereotype: Men are hugely competitive, meaning cooperative effort is the exception rather than the norm,...

In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they...

Columbia researchers develop a general optical imaging platform to examine activities of a broad range of small biomolecules in living...

Engineers like to make things that work. And if one wants to make something work using nanoscale components—the size of...

Bionic dog can walk again after being fitted with prosthetics Naki’o, a mixed breed dog from Nebraska, has become the...

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded researchers at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, a €2.43million grant...

Researchers at Princeton University have discovered the 3D structure of an enzyme that cuts to ribbons the genetic material of...

There are more than a trillion cells called neurons that form a labyrinth of connections in our brains. Each of...

IBM’s Watson is one of the smartest computer systems on the planet: its advanced artificial intelligence can answer natural language...

Scientists at Imperial College London are aiming to cut the need to use animals in research by improving methods for...

In 3D, healthy hearts do their own version of the twist. Rather than a simple pumping action, they circulate blood...

A team of Stanford Bio-X scientists has found the secret to how nerves withstand the wear and tear of bending...

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers created new nerve cells in the brains and spinal cords of living mammals without the...

Using tiny particles designed to target cancer-fighting immune cells, Johns Hopkins researchers have trained the immune systems of mice to...

Cambridge research that has for the first time successfully grown “mini-livers” from adult mouse stem cells has won the UK’s...