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An ambitious 3D-printed heart project aims to make a natural organ replacement for patients possible within a decade. But the...

From a bacteria’s perspective the environment is one big DNA waste yard. Researchers have now shown that bacteria can take...

The uncoupling Protein 1 (UCP1) is found exclusively in brown adipose tissue. Until some years ago it was thought that...

Diseases affecting the kidneys represent a major and unsolved health issue worldwide. The kidneys rarely recover function once they are...

By using a new analysis method, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) in Sweden have found...

Unexpected behaviour in ferroelectric materials explored by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory supports a new...

Cambridge scientists have uncovered the mechanism by which bacteria build their surface propellers (flagella) – the long extensions that allow...

If you think with the release of every new i-device the world is getting closer to thought-controlled smart tech and...

A new method for developing stem cells enables the production of liver and pancreatic cells in “clinically relevant” quantities for...

Researchers led by bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have generated the most complete genome sequences from single...

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...