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The virus that causes cervical, head and neck, anal and other cancers can damage chromosomes and genes where it inserts...

University of Arizona doctoral degree candidate Jay Sanguinetti has authored a new study, published online in the journal Psychological Science,...

Young animals are known to repair their tissues effortlessly, but can this capacity be recaptured in adults? A new study...

Recent advances in robotics technology make it possible to create prosthetics that can duplicate the natural movement of human legs....

Professor of Genetics Scott Williams, PhD, of the Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (iQBS) at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine,...

Scientists have puzzled for centuries over how and why multicellular organisms evolved the almost universal trait of using single cells,...

Kwabena Boahen got his first computer in 1982, when he was a teenager living in Accra. “It was a really...

Navigate the brain in a way that was never before possible; fly through major brain pathways, compare essential circuits, zoom...

A paper published in a special edition of the journal Science proposes a novel understanding of brain architecture using a...

Tufts University biologists using new, automated training and testing techniques have found that planarian flatworms store memory outside their brains...

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...