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Heart tissue sustains irreparable damage in the wake of a heart attack. Because cells in the heart cannot multiply and the cardiac muscle contains few...

Scientists have created a false memory in mice by manipulating neurons that bear the memory of a place. The work further demonstrates just how unreliable...

After an interminable wait, the first brain-boosting tDCS headset has finally received FCC approval and will begin shipping in the next few days. Dubbed the...

Genetically modified organism could turn carbon dioxide or waste products into a gasoline-compatible transportation fuel A humble soil bacterium called Ralstonia eutropha has a natural...

Novel microchips imitate the brain’s information processing in real time. Neuroinformatics researchers from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich together with colleagues from the...

Hair loss is usually genetically determined but can also be the result of aging or chronic illness. It is often a distressing condition that negatively...

Although human cells have an estimated 20,000 genes, only a fraction of those are turned on at any given time, depending on the cell’s needs...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a protein that could help physicians decide what type of therapy patients with hormone driven breast cancer...

You are not just yourself. You are also the thousands of microbes that you carry. In fact, they represent an invisible majority that may be...

Earlier this month, five researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, put out a paper discussing the possible development of mind-reading "neural dust," which could...

Researchers have identified a yet unknown bacterial cell-cell communication system. The micrograph shows the bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens. The cells labeled in red produce the aggregation...

Researchers have developed an "intelligent knife" that can tell surgeons immediately whether the tissue they are cutting is cancerous or not. In the first study...

An artificial bone scaffold produced by researchers in South Korea could enhance the treatment of bone damage and defects through bone grafts. Traditionally, bone grafts...

A novel material with world record-breaking surface area and water adsorption abilities has been synthesized by researchers from Uppsala University, Sweden. The results are published...

Scientists at UMass Medical School are the first to establish that a naturally occurring X chromosome “off switch” can be rerouted to neutralize the extra...