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Scientific debate has been hot lately about whether microbial nanowires, the specialized electrical pili of the mud-dwelling anaerobic bacterium Geobacter...

The 3-D printing scene, a growing favorite of do-it-yourselfers, has spread to the study of plasma physics. With a series...

Changing the shape of breast cancer cells could make the disease more sensitive to treatments - even driving the body's...

Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have identified a new pathway by which several brain areas communicate within the brain’s striatum. Published...

Limp or firm, your handshake conveys subliminal social cues. Now, research reveals it also transmits chemical signals that could explain...

Highlighting a potential target in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) and Alzheimer’s disease, new research suggests that triggering a...

Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have found that navigational brain cells that help sense direction are as electrically active...

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: researchers slice a brain into thin little sections and, just by measuring...

A newly published study is the first to report an association between bisphenol-A (BPA), a common plasticizer used in a...

Protein engineering is the crucial pulse of the booming, relatively new scientific discipline. Scientists grow, harvest, and reprogram proteins to...

You might resemble or act more like your mother, but a novel research study reveals that mammals are genetically more...

It's well known that our human memory can fail us. People can be forgetful, and they can sometimes also "remember"...

3-D printing could become a powerful tool in customizing interventional radiology treatments to individual patient needs, with clinicians having the...

An innovative interventional radiology treatment has been found to offer chronic migraine sufferers sustained relief of their headaches, according to...