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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:...

The chemical messenger dopamine – otherwise known as the happiness hormone – is important not only for motivation and motor...

A University of Texas at Dallas professor applied robot control theory to enable powered prosthetics to dynamically respond to the...

New 3D printed heart technology could reduce the number of heart surgeries in children with congenital heart disease, according to...

What would Stuart Little make of it? Mice have been created whose brains are half human. As a result, the...

Pilots are trained to guard against vertigo: a sudden loss of the sense of vertical direction that renders them unable...

Any science textbook will tell you we can’t see infrared light. Like X-rays and radio waves, infrared light waves are...

When it comes to getting out of a tricky situation, we humans have an evolutionary edge over other primates. Take,...