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Magnetoception is a sense which allows bacteria, insects and even vertebrates like birds and sharks to detect magnetic fields for...

The thousands of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) molecules present in each cell are known primarily for their role converting food and...

MPs in Britain have voted for the use of controversial techniques to create babies from the DNA of three people....

By combining micro-imprinting and electro-spinning techniques, researchers at Shanghai University’s Rapid Manufacturing Engineering Center have developed a vascular graft composed...

A team of international scientists has discovered a new mechanism by which immune cells in the skin function act as...

No one had checked before, but RNA, the nucleic acid involved in many cell functions including protein synthesis, appears to...

The first results from a trial of a candidate Ebola vaccine at Oxford University suggest the vaccine has an acceptable...

In medical research, animal-based experiments have thus far been a necessary evil. Fraunhofer researchers have developed a highly promising alternative,...

Scientists have identified a biological clock that provides vital clues about how long a person is likely to live. Researchers...

Together, obesity and Type 2 diabetes rank among our nation’s greatest health problem, and they largely result from what many...

Three-dimensional printing technology can make surgery safer for children with congenital heart disease and reduce the duration as well as...

There is no rest for a baby's brain - not even in sleep. While infants sleep they are reprocessing what...

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have found that defects in how cells are squeezed...

Researchers working at Institut Pasteur in France have found that the Ebola virus is mutating "a lot" causing concern in...

Drugs for HIV have become adept at suppressing infection, but they still can’t eliminate it. That’s because the medication in...

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...

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....