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With a few flicks of a light switch--on-off-on-off--Stanford University's Oscar Abilez is one step closer to changing the lives of millions. Why? Because as a...

Weizmann Institute scientists show that removing one protein from adult cells enables them to efficiently turn back the clock to a stem-cell-like state Embryonic stem...

The toxoplasma parasite can be deadly, causing spontaneous abortion in pregnant women or killing immune-compromised patients, but it has even stranger effects in mice. Infected...

A lens invented at The Ohio State University combines the focusing ability of a human eye with the wide-angle view of an insect eye to...

Google has launched a mysterious new project called Calico. It's "a new company focused on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and...

A new technique that allows scientists to measure the electrical activity in the communication junctions of the nervous systems has been developed by a researcher...

A team of researchers led by King's College London has for the first time identified a new gene which may have the ability to prevent...