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Credit: Qing Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences New research led by Professor Cathie Martin of the John Innes Centre has...

It’s been known for more than a century that acetaminophen is an effective painkiller, but according to a new U...

Some cells are meant to live, and some are meant to die. The linker cell of Caenorhabditis elegans, a tiny...

The recent epidemic of Zika virus infections in South and Latin America has raised serious concerns on its ramifications for...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – The Zika virus may be associated with an autoimmune disorder that attacks the brain’s myelin similar...

New, ultra-high-field magnetic resonance images (MRI) of the brain by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago provide the...

Researchers in Japan have found, for the first time in vertebrates, a genetic switch that determines whether germ cells become...

A new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine found that synchronized physiological interactions between remote brain...

The research group, led by Dr. Christina Scheel, developed an assay whereby cultured human breast epithelial cells rebuild the three-dimensional...

Biomedical devices that can be implanted in the body for drug delivery, tissue engineering, or sensing can help improve treatment...

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major human pathogen and is known to be associated with increased risk of fatal heart complications...

New study: New way of controlling electronic systems endowed with a memory can provide insights into the way associative memories...

How do primates, including humans, tell faces apart? Scientists have long attributed this ability to so-called “face-detector” (FD) neurons, thought...

Spider silk has long been noted for its graceful structure, as well as its advanced material properties: Ounce for ounce,...

New research by NOAA Fisheries has revealed the opah, or moonfish, as the first fully warm-blooded fish that circulates heated...

Imagine that it is possible, through a tiny adhesive electronic stamp attached to the arm, to know in real time...

Focusing on the difficult case of restoring cartilage, which requires both flexibility and mechanical strength, the researchers investigated a new...

Scientists and engineers have made a breakthrough in cell transplantation using a gel-like biomaterial that keeps cells alive and helps...

Aging is a complex biological process which is accompanied by an increasing number of toxic protein aggregates in the cells....

Decorating the outside of cells like tiny antenna, a diverse community of sugar molecules acts like a telecommunications system, sending...