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UC Berkeley researchers have discovered that oxytocin — a hormone associated with maternal nurturing, social attachments, childbirth and sex — is indispensable for healthy muscle...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that a part of the nervous system, the parasympathetic nervous system, is formed in a way that is...

In today’s digitally driven world, access to information appears limitless. But when you have something specific in mind that you don’t know, like the name...

In a new study published online in the Journal of the American Heart Association June 12, 2014, researchers at Columbia Engineering report that they have...

The human mind can rapidly absorb and analyze new information as it flits from thought to thought. These quickly changing brain states may be encoded...

Yuet Wai Kan of the University of California, San Francisco and colleagues have created HIV-resistant white blood cells by editing the genomes of induced pluripotent...

This is the story of two perfectly harmless genes. By themselves, PAX3 and MAML3 don’t cause any problems. However, when they combine during an abnormal...

Scientists from the University of Leeds have found a way to restore the function of damaged blood vessel repairing cells, in a potentially important step...

Using a type of human stem cell, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have created a three-dimensional complement of human retinal tissue in the laboratory, which...

In the first evidence of a natural intervention triggering stem cell-based regeneration of an organ or system, a study in the June 5 issue of...

Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have shown that stem cell behaviour can be modified by manipulating the nanoscale properties of the material they...

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” by #JimRohn

"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought." - Blaise Pascal

Twelve years ago, UNC School of Medicine researcher Brian Strahl, PhD, found that a protein called Set2 plays a role in how yeast genes are...

Biologists and doctors rely heavily on incubators and microscopes. Now the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT has come up with a novel solution that...