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In a new study, published in this week’s issue of the journal Science, researchers show for the first time how...

The tangled highway of blood vessels that twists and turns inside our bodies, delivering essential nutrients and disposing of hazardous...

The overall number and nature of mutations—rather than the presence of any single mutation—influences an individual’s risk of developing schizophrenia,...

Results from the first study of the clinical application of next generation DNA sequencing (NGS) in screening embryos for genetic...

The gap between stem cell research and regenerative medicine just became a lot narrower, thanks to a new technique that...

Symmetry is an inherent part of development. As an embryo, an organism’s brain and spinal cord, like the rest of...

Like salmon traveling upstream to spawn, sperm cells are extremely efficient at swimming against the current, according to research to...

An international team of scientists has made a major step forward in our understanding of how enzymes ‘edit’ genes, paving...

Using your brain – particularly during adolescence – may help brain cells survive and could impact how the brain functions...

Pilots of the future could be able to control their aircraft by merely thinking commands. Scientists of the Technische Universität...

For the first time researchers have succeeded in altering HIV virus particles so that they can simultaneously, as it were,...

Based on the mechanisms adopted by birds, bats, insects and snakes, 14 distinguished research teams have developed solutions to some...

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a signaling pathway in cancer cells that controls...

Neurons live for many years but their components, the proteins and molecules that make up the cell are continually being...

A new method of generating mature nerve cells from skin cells could greatly enhance understanding of neurodegenerative diseases, and could...

A recent study into the biomechanics of the necks of ants – a common insect that can amazingly lift objects...

The scientific progress that has made it possible to dream of a future in which faulty organs could be regrown...

Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey shows that the ‘first in man’ series of vaccine injections given directly...

Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have built the smallest, fastest and...

Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have a potential solution for how to more effectively kill...