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 ...

A method of growing human cells from tissue removed from a patient’s gastrointestinal (GI) tract eventually may help scientists develop ...

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown cardiac molecule that could provide a key to treating, and preventing, heart failure. The ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and five other institutions have created a molecule that can cause cancer ...

Researchers have developed an implantable device that precisely monitors acid build-up in the body for people with diabetes and produces ...

Film editors play a critical role by helping shape raw footage into a narrative. Part of the challenge is that ...

Bioengineers have created three-dimensional brain-like tissue that functions like and has structural features similar to tissue in the rat brain ...

For the first time in the world, a patient with a mechanical heart pump is taking part in a new ...

In the developing brain, special proteins that act like molecular tugboats push or pull on growing nerve cells, or neurons, ...

Blood stem cells have the potential to turn into any type of blood cell, whether it be the oxygen-carrying red ...

If you ask a child which is the world's fastest animal, they may tell you anything from cheetah, falcon or ...

Scientists from the University of Leeds have discovered a gene that plays a vital role in blood vessel formation, research ...

No longer just fantastical fodder for sci-fi buffs, cyborg technology is bringing us tangible progress toward real-life electronic skin, prosthetics ...

In every cell in your body, tiny protein motors are toiling away to keep you going. Moving muscles, dividing cells, ...

Adult organisms ranging from fruit flies to humans harbor adult stem cells, some of which renew themselves through cell division ...