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Emulsifiers, which are added to most processed foods to aid texture and extend shelf life, can alter the gut microbiota...

Newly developed tiny antennas, likened to spotlights on the nanoscale, offer the potential to measure food safety, identify pollutants in...

Like the shape-shifting robots of “Transformers” fame, a unique class of proteins in the human body also has the ability...

Researchers from UPM have developed a manufacturing method of aluminum optical nanosensors on versatile substrates that can be used for...

Researchers have developed a novel three-dimensional, multiscale and multicomponent model of endothelial cells monolayer, the inner lining of artery, to...

A team of researchers from Italy, Israel and the United Kingdom has succeeded in generating mature, functional skeletal muscles in...

By loading magnetic nanoparticles with drugs and dressing them in biochemical camouflage, Houston Methodist researchers say they can destroy blood...

Three Austrian men have become the first in the world to undergo a new technique called “bionic reconstruction”, enabling them...

There are no effective available treatments for sufferers of Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most aggressive and devastating form of brain...

Most people have taken an antibiotic to treat a bacterial infection. Now researchers from the University of North Carolina at...

Our brains generate a constant hum of activity: As neurons fire, they produce brain waves that oscillate at different frequencies....

Scientists have identified weak spots in cancer cells that could be targeted and attacked by new precision drugs. A major...

Researchers have developed a new, low-cost method to build DNA nanotubes block by block – a breakthrough that could help...

Newly discovered taste receptors for hydrogen peroxide allow worms to indirectly detect light. Human taste receptors are specialized to distinguish...

Mitochondria not only are the cell’s main power producers, they are also the chief cooks and bottle washers.When they get...

It is well-known that bacteria can support each others’ growth and exchange nutrients. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for...

Scientists at the University of Sheffield have succeeded in using a 3D printed guide to help nerves damaged in traumatic...

For wounds to close, cells need to move collectively in one direction in a coordinated fashion. Until now the central...

Many therapeutic cancer vaccines that are currently being developed are designed to direct the immune system against altered cancer-cell proteins....

When making simple decisions, neurons in the brain apply the same statistical trick used by Alan Turing to help break...