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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...

MIT chemical engineers have developed a novel way to generate nanoparticles that can recognize specific molecules, opening up a new...

Viruses are as simple as they are "smart": too elementary to be able to reproduce by themselves, they exploit the...

The blood stem cells that live in bone marrow are at the top of a complex family tree. Such stem...

Dr. Frederick Sanger, recognized by many as the “father of genomics”, died Tuesday 19 November 2013, at the age of...

This important scientific breakthrough, developed by the University of Granada, will aid the immediate use of artificially-grown skin for major...

More than 260,000 Americans are alive today thanks to transplant operations that have replaced their failing kidneys, hearts, lungs or...

You may be sensitive to gluten, but you’re not sure. Perhaps you can’t put your finger on a recurring malaise,...

Ancient viruses from Neanderthals have been found in modern human DNA by researchers at Oxford University and Plymouth University. The...

An investigational, man-made blood vessel used in vascular grafts for kidney dialysis patients may potentially show encouraging early results among...

UOW researchers are in the midst of developing an innovative brain implant to help treat people with mental illnesses such...

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...