To help people suffering paralysis from injury, stroke or disease, scientists have invented brain-machine interfaces that record electrical signals of ...

Although the time and cost of sequencing an entire human genome has plummeted, analyzing the resulting three billion base pairs ...

Researchers in Bern have discovered that, during a viral infection, immune cells control the blood stem cells in the bone ...

The power of regenerative medicine appears to have turned science fiction into scientific reality—by allowing scientists to transform skin cells ...

One of the major causes of hearing loss in mammals is damage to the sound-sensing hair cells in the inner ...

A new bioprinting method developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard School ...

An international team led by The University of Texas at Dallas has discovered that ordinary fishing line and sewing thread ...

To answer the seemingly simple question "Have I been here before?" we must use our memories of previous experiences to ...

A commonly-used HIV drug has been shown to kill-off the human papilloma virus (HPV) that leads to cervical cancer in ...

Researchers have developed the technology for a catheter-based device that would provide forward-looking, real-time, three-dimensional imaging from inside the heart, ...

Although low temperature fuel cells powered by methanol or hydrogen have been well studied, existing low temperature fuel cell technologies ...

A motivated student (PhD position) with background in one of following or related disciplines is desired: chemical engineering, bioengineering, biomedical ...

One factor that makes glioblastoma cancers so difficult to treat is that malignant cells from the tumors spread throughout the ...

It is a sad fact that old age brings diseases. Many may not be life-threatening, but they make life less ...

One of science's strongest dogmas is that complex life on Earth could only evolve when oxygen levels in the atmosphere ...

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have pinpointed why normal aging is accompanied by a diminished ability to ...

One of the major problems in today’s society is the efficiency and cost of developing medicines to treat disease. The ...

Testing the effects of drugs on a simulated brain could lead to breakthrough treatments for neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s, ...

Second-year bioengineering doctoral student Sylvia Natividad-Diaz may have found a way around a persistent obstacle in the treatment of HIV/AIDS—identifying ...

High-tech glasses developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may help surgeons visualize cancer cells, which glow ...