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In findings that may lead to new treatments for cognitive disorders, researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory...

With the goal of making it easier for surgeons to detect malignant tissue during surgery and hopefully reduce the rate...

Results from a preliminary study indicate that among patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), treatment with nonmyeloablative hematopoietic stem cell...

Bacteria communicate by means of chemical signals and can develop common characteristics through this "agreement" and also develop their potential...

For the first time since the 1970s, researchers are on the verge of developing a new class of anesthetics. According...

Professor Martin Bornhäuser and Doctor Christoph Röllig, both experts in the field of blood cancer at the Carl Gustav Carus...

In new research published in Endocrinology, Thomas Burris, Ph.D., chair of pharmacological and physiological science at Saint Louis University, reports...

Scientists have found the balance necessary to aid healing with high-tech hydrogel. Rice chemist Jeffrey Hartgerink, lead author Vivek Kumar...

Researchers have succeeded for the first time in controlling the function of sperm by optogenetics. They inserted a light-activated enzyme...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new, wearable sensor that uses silver nanowires to monitor electrophysiological signals,...

Microscopic spheres of calcium phosphate have been linked to the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a major cause of...

Electroporation is a powerful technique in molecular biology. By using an electrical pulse to create a temporary nanopore in a...

A new study from MIT reveals one reason why people who suffer from chronic inflammatory diseases such as colitis have...

Beginning with the invention of the first microscope in the late 1500s, scientists have been trying to peer into preserved...

Stem cells derived from human amnion have for some time been considered promising for cell therapies because of their ease...

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) affect 1 to 2 percent of children in the United States. Hundreds of genetic and environmental...

A see-through zebrafish and enhanced imaging provide the first direct glimpse of how blood stem cells take root in the...

When plants come under attack internal alarm bells ring and their defence mechanisms swing into action – and it happens...

We have approximately 100 billion nerve cells in our brains, all of which communicate with one another. Why do they...

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in amplifying genes altered by activities such as smoking – with changes that...