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  For the first time, scientists have transplanted neural cells derived from a monkey's skin into its brain and watched the cells develop into several...

Despite many remarkable discoveries in the field of neuroscience during the past several decades, researchers have not been able to fully crack the brain’s “neural...

An air-breathing bio-battery has been constructed by researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The core element...

Glial cells -- a family of cells found in the human central nervous system and, until recently, considered mere "housekeepers" -- now appear to be...

The veined wing of the clanger cicada kills bacteria solely through its physical structure — one of the first natural surfaces found to do so....

The flip of a single molecular switch helps create the mature neuronal connections that allow the brain to bridge the gap between adolescent impressionability and...

The Rice lab of bioengineer Ka-Yiu San is part of a recently announced $25 million United States Department of Agriculture project to develop a new...

  The discovery and analysis of an extremely rare African American Y chromosome pushes back the time of the most recent common ancestor for the...

National Taiwan University is a national co-educational research university located in Taipei, Taiwan. In Taiwan, it is colloquially known as "Táidà". Its 1,086,167 m2 main...

A "Google Map" model of human metabolism has been produced by an international team of bioengineers, offering "improved predictive capability" over its predecessor.

A team of researchers from UMass Medical School, the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and the University of Mississippi Medical Center have reported the first case...

A study published today in the journal Nature reports that a viral predator of the cholera bacteria has stolen the functional immune system of bacteria...

In a significant advance for brain-machine interfaces, engineers at Brown University have developed a novel wireless, broadband, rechargeable, fully implantable brain sensor that has performed...

For the first time, scientists have shown that transplanted eyes located far outside the head in a vertebrate animal model can confer vision without a...

Fat worms confirm that researchers from Michigan State University have successfully bioengineered a plant with oily leaves ­– a feat that could enhance biofuel production...