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Examination of DNA from 21 primate species – from squirrel monkeys to humans – exposes an evolutionary war against infectious...

Sex differences in risk seeking behaviour, emergency hospital admissions, and mortality are well documented. Males are more likely to be...

Scientists at McMaster have discovered that human stem cells made from adult donor cells “remember” where they came from. Human...

In a triumph for cell biology, researchers have assembled the first high-resolution, 3D maps of entire folded genomes and found...

Touch can be a subtle sense, but it communicates quickly whether something in our hands is slipping, for example, so...

While the research may have only aimed to demonstrate what is possible for 3D printing of electronic devices, researchers at...

Future fitness trackers could soon add blood-oxygen levels to the list of vital signs measured with new technology developed by...

You’ve misplaced your cell phone. You start by scanning where you remember leaving it: on your bureau. You check and...

Researchers from MIT and the Broad Institute have teamed up with colleagues from the University of Tokyo to form the...

Columbia University Medical Center researchers have devised a way to replace the knee's protective lining, called the meniscus, using a...

Paying Attention Makes Touch-Sensing Brain Cells Fire Rapidly and in Sync. Whether we’re paying attention to something we see can...

Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers have taken what they describe as “the first step toward a pill that can...

Researchers have long wondered if there is an upper limit to our capacity to store memories and how we manage...

Optogenetics is one of the hottest tools in biomedical research today, a method that uses gene therapy to deliver light-sensitive...

New findings show programmable biomaterials can be delivered using needle injection to induce an immune response and fight deadly diseases....

Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered a new line of defence used by cancer cells to evade cell death, according...

Nature's ingenious systems: A layer of cells called endothelial cells lines the interior of blood vessels. When blood flows through...

New system enables pattern-recognition systems to convey what they learn to humans. Julie Shah (left) and Been Kim Photo Credit:...