The first thousand-robot flash mob has assembled at Harvard University. “Form a sea star shape,” directs a computer scientist, sending ...

Researchers from The University of Western Australia have shown that electromagnetic stimulation can alter brain organisation which may make your ...

The discovery throws open the door to a new arena of science that explores how plants communicate with each other ...

It sounds like science fiction, but it seems that bacteria within us — which outnumber our own cells about 100-fold ...

When faced with pathogens, the immune system summons a swarm of cells made up of soldiers and peacekeepers. The peacekeeping ...

How close is genomics to showing us how the human brain evolved? Recently three geneticists at the forefront of human ...

Normal microorganisms in the intestines appear to play a pivotal role in how the HIV virus foils a successful attack ...

Gene-based personalized medicine has many possibilities for diagnosis and targeted therapy, but one big bottleneck: the expensive and time-consuming DNA-sequencing ...

One of the human body’s first responses to a viral infection is to make and release signaling proteins called interferons, ...

For the first time ever, a paralyzed man can move his fingers and hand with his own thoughts thanks to ...

A University of Utah team discovered a method for turning a small, $40 needle into a 3-D microscope capable of ...

Recent advances that allow the precise editing of genomes now raise the possibility that fruit and other crops might be ...

Researchers at the University of Bonn Hospital discover how our organism definitively detects RNA viruses Our immunosensory system detects virus ...

During her postgraduate stay at the Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), Blanca Lorena Villarreal developed a device that allows multiple robotic ...

Dangerous brain tumors hijack the brain’s existing blood supply throughout their progression, by growing only within narrow potential spaces between ...

Researchers have strived for years to determine how neurons are produced and integrated into the brain throughout adult life. In ...

A new design aims to identify the memory of movement in the amputee's brain in order to manipulate the prosthetic ...

A multicenter study including University of Kentucky researchers found that a new nerve repair technique yields better results and fewer ...

For the first time, scientists have uncovered new information on how stem cells in the human bowel behave, revealing vital ...