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Symmetry is an inherent part of development. As an embryo, an organism’s brain and spinal cord, like the rest of...

Like salmon traveling upstream to spawn, sperm cells are extremely efficient at swimming against the current, according to research to...

An international team of scientists has made a major step forward in our understanding of how enzymes ‘edit’ genes, paving...

Using your brain – particularly during adolescence – may help brain cells survive and could impact how the brain functions...

Pilots of the future could be able to control their aircraft by merely thinking commands. Scientists of the Technische Universität...

For the first time researchers have succeeded in altering HIV virus particles so that they can simultaneously, as it were,...

Based on the mechanisms adopted by birds, bats, insects and snakes, 14 distinguished research teams have developed solutions to some...

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a signaling pathway in cancer cells that controls...

Neurons live for many years but their components, the proteins and molecules that make up the cell are continually being...

A new method of generating mature nerve cells from skin cells could greatly enhance understanding of neurodegenerative diseases, and could...

A recent study into the biomechanics of the necks of ants – a common insect that can amazingly lift objects...

The scientific progress that has made it possible to dream of a future in which faulty organs could be regrown...

Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey shows that the ‘first in man’ series of vaccine injections given directly...

Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have built the smallest, fastest and...

Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have a potential solution for how to more effectively kill...

A wireless system developed by Assistant Professor Ada Poon uses the same power as a cell phone to safely transmit...

Doctors and scientists in Southampton have completed their first hip surgery with a 3D printed implant and bone stem cell...

Researchers at MIT and the University of Vienna have created an imaging system that reveals neural activity throughout the brains...

Dogs can be trained to sniff out evidence of prostate cancer in human urine with near-perfect accuracy, Italian researchers report....

Molecular ‘fingerprint’ for tissue taken from first isotope-enriched mouse has huge potential for scientific breakthroughs, as well as improved medical...