When a heart gets damaged, such as during a major heart attack, there’s no easy fix. But scientists working on ...

Using only data from an fMRI scan, researchers led by a Yale University undergraduate have accurately reconstructed images of human ...

It's well-known that the human body is a good conductor of electricity, and now researchers have taken advantage of this ...

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Joint BioEnergy Institute have engineered a bacterium to synthesize pinene, a ...

Plans for a new type of DNA vaccine to protect against the deadly HIV and Hepatitis C viruses have taken ...

Billionaire tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, along with actor Ashton Kutcher, have joined forces to make a $40 ...

Stem cell model shows nerve cells develop, behave and respond to lithium differently – opening doors to potential new treatments. ...

"Imagine turning on your home lab kit, pricking your finger, and blotting the blood on an array of fiber probes. ...

Hugh Herr, director of the Biomechatronics Group at The MIT Media Lab, strolls onto the TED2014 stage in a pair ...

A new technique, developed by researchers in the Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory at the Beckman Institute at the University of ...

A 15-year-old high school sophomore from Westford, Nathan has earned international renown — and a nice chunk of money — ...

Caffeine-fueled cram sessions are routine occurrences on any college campus. But what if there was a better, safer way to ...

One in a thousand children in the United States is deaf, and one in three adults will experience significant hearing ...

Sometimes, research yields unexpected results. At Rutgers University–Camden, a group working together to decipher the genetic basis of cell shapes ...

An advanced assay quickly illuminates bacteria for more rapid, accurate detection. Ever wonder why fruits and vegetables sometimes hit the ...

Scientists at A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) have developed a method to generate human induced pluripotent stem ...

Hybrid materials combine bacterial cells with nonliving elements that can conduct electricity or emit light. An artist's rendering of a ...

Clemson University bioengineering students have created a cost-effective, blood sugar testing kit for diabetics. The kit works in similar fashion ...

For the first time, scientists have succeeded in coaxing laboratory cultures of human stem cells to develop into the specialized, ...

As stem cells continue their gradual transition from the lab to the clinic, a research group at the University of ...