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Using tiny particles designed to target cancer-fighting immune cells, Johns Hopkins researchers have trained the immune systems of mice to...

Cambridge research that has for the first time successfully grown “mini-livers” from adult mouse stem cells has won the UK’s...

Simply making nanoparticles spin coaxes them to arrange themselves into what University of Michigan researchers call 'living rotating crystals' that...

Cancer is the second leading cause of disease-related death in the United States, and may overtake heart disease without aggressive...

Cells in our body are constantly dividing to maintain our body functions. At each division, our DNA code and a...

Low-cost urine test developed by MIT engineers amplifies signals from growing tumors to detect disease. Cancer rates in developing nations...

Using an inexpensive 3-D printer, biomedical engineers have developed a custom-fitted, implantable device with embedded sensors that could transform treatment...

Our cells don't live in a vacuum. They are surrounded by a complex, nurturing matrix that is essential for many...

To help people suffering paralysis from injury, stroke or disease, scientists have invented brain-machine interfaces that record electrical signals of...

Although the time and cost of sequencing an entire human genome has plummeted, analyzing the resulting three billion base pairs...

Researchers in Bern have discovered that, during a viral infection, immune cells control the blood stem cells in the bone...

The power of regenerative medicine appears to have turned science fiction into scientific reality—by allowing scientists to transform skin cells...

One of the major causes of hearing loss in mammals is damage to the sound-sensing hair cells in the inner...

A new bioprinting method developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard School...