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Rice University bioengineers have developed a hydrogel scaffold for craniofacial bone tissue regeneration that starts as a liquid, solidifies into...

BIOENGINEERS dream of growing spare parts for our worn-out or diseased bodies. They have already succeeded with some tissues, but...

Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA. This second code contains information that changes how scientists read the...

The idea of growing replacement tissue to repair an organ, or to swap it out for an entirely new one,...

Scientists from Case Western Reserve University and University of Kansas Medical Center have restored behavior -- in this case, the...

A discovery by a research team led by Ryohei Yasuda at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience has significantly...

An artificial heart containing miniaturised space technology will soon beat inside a person, having now been approved for human trials...

A new nerve interface can simulate a sense of touch from 20 spots on a prosthetic hand. There have been...

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have discovered that the skin is capable of communicating with the liver. The...

Scientists at Rutgers University have developed a targeted drug delivery system that they believe could make ovarian cancer more treatable...

In search of better cancer treatments, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have designed synthetic molecules...

New research by University of Vermont Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. Jeffrey Spees, and colleagues has identified a new tool...

The secret to building brain-controlled prostheses may be to ignore the brain entirely.In the past several years scientists have delivered...

Get ready: The "new genetics" promises to change faulty genes of future generations by introducing new, functioning genes using "designer...

A hand-held ''bio pen'' developed in Wollongong will allow surgeons to draw regenerating bone material directly on to the body....

A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team reports today that the brain can produce and release estrogen -- a discovery that...

A multidisciplinary team of scientists from Spanish universities and research centres, among which is the University of Valencia, has managed...

A new brain connectivity study from Penn Medicine published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found...

For the first time, scientists have succeeded in transforming human stem cells into functional lung and airway cells. The advance,...

Lab mice trained to fear a particular smell can transfer the impulse to their unborn sons and grandsons through a...