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You wouldn't hear the mating song of the male fruit fly as you reached for the infested bananas in your...

Eyal Amiel didn't think he wanted to study immunology, let alone make a career of it. But as co-author of...

The Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) at the Université de Montréal (UdeM), in collaboration with the Maisonneuve-Rosemont...

Playing a science-based mobile gaming app for 25 minutes can reduce anxiety in stressed individuals, according to research published in...

Stem cells derived from human muscle tissue were able to repair nerve damage and restore function in an animal model...

A team of researchers working at the University of Colorado has found that human stem cells appear to remember the...

The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology...

Nanotechnology could turn shrubbery into supercharged energy producers or sensors for explosives. Imaging the fluorescence of carbon nanotubes inside leaves...

Your brain's ability to instantly link what you see with what you do is down to a dedicated information 'highway',...

Study shows that fixation devices derived from silkworm silk are potentially attractive alternatives to metal and synthetic-based systems When a...

Team of researchers searched for the foundations of manic-depressive disorder in about 24,000 people First on top of the world...

Soft robots — which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels —...

Intelligent people are more likely to trust others, while those who score lower on measures of intelligence are less likely...

Although choosing to do something because the perceived benefit outweighs the financial cost is something people do daily, little is...

Researchers at UC Berkeley found that an electrical current can be used to orchestrate the flow of a group of...

Medical implants, complex interfaces between brain and machine or remotely controlled insects: Recent developments combining machines and organisms have great...

A co-author of a Japanese study that promised a revolutionary way to create stem cells has called for the headline-grabbing...

There have been plenty of fad diets that captured the public's imagination over the years, but Harvard scientists have identified...

A team of Bio-X researchers at Stanford has developed mice whose sensitivity to pain can be dialed up or down...

In a significant advance for the growing field of synthetic biology, Rice University bioengineers have created a toolkit of genes...