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Light enhances brain activity during a cognitive task even in some people who are totally blind, according to a study conducted by researchers at the...

When you look at the hands of a clock or the streets on a map, your brain is effortlessly performing computations that tell you about...

What sounds like a dream of the future has already been the subject of research for a few years: simply printing out tissue and organs....

Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego have created a new method for analyzing RNA transcripts from samples of 50 to 100 cells. The...

In medicine, the printers are already making prosthetic hands, hearing aid cases and parts of human ears. This riboflavin-rich material can be used to print...

Bioengineers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Laser Zentrum Hannover have discovered that a naturally-occurring compound can...

Embracing the idea that molecules can be programmed much like a computer, researchers can now perform remarkable feats on a very small scale. New Caltech...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) causes progressive paralysis by destroying nerve cells and the spinal cord. It interrupts vision, balance and even thinking. On a suggestion from...

Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when nudging mature cells back to a pluripotent stage,...

The poster child for basic research might well be a one-celled green algae found in ordinary lakes and ponds. Amazingly, this unassuming creature--called Chlamydomonas--is helping...

In two parallel projects, researchers have created new genomes inside the bacterium E. coli in ways that test the limits of genetic reprogramming and open...

Our ability to grasp and manipulate objects relies on feedback from our sense of touch. Without these signals from the hand, we would have trouble...

A brain region activated when people are asked to perform mathematical calculations in an experimental setting is similarly activated when they use numbers -- or...

Thirty-four million people are living with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, worldwide and each year some 2.5 million more are infected, according to the World...