When President Barack Obama announced the $100 million neuroscience initiative called Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) in April, the journal Nature called it...
Human embryonic stem cells can be induced to spontaneously form developing brain tissue During development, the nervous system forms as a flat sheet called the...
An interdisciplinary study led by Dr Ali Tavassoli, a Reader in chemical biology at the University of Southampton, has shown for the first time that...
A cure for type 1 diabetes has long eluded even the top experts. Not because they do not know what must be done—but because the...
Pancreatic cancer is a particularly devastating disease. At least 94 percent of patients will die within five years, and in 2013 it was ranked as...
Researchers at the University of Arizona and the University of Illinois have developed tiny power generators that can convert the motion of a beating heart...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — the branch of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for developing new, cutting-edge technologies for the military...
It is a big dream in science: To start from scratch with simple artificial microskopic building blocks and end up with something much more complex:...
Rsearchers of Freie Universität Berlin, of the Bernstein Fokus Neuronal Basis of Learning, and of the Bernstein Center Berlin and have developed a robot that...
Maybe you’ve seen the movies or played with toy Transformers, those shape-shifting machines that morph in response to whatever challenge they face.It turns out that...
By now nearly everyone has heard about “normal” 3-D printers, but 3D Bioprinters? It is seldom that one product, in and of itself, says so...
The projects will help small technology companies grow and bring products to market. The fields earmarked for development under the scheme are advanced manufacturing, biomedical...
Stanford researchers may have solved a riddle about the inner workings of the brain, which consists of billions of neurons, organized into many different regions,...
Is the human brain an elaborate organic computer? Since the time of the earliest electronic computers, some have imagined that with sufficiently robust memory, processing...
Since continuous miniaturization in microelectronics is already starting to reach the physical limits, researchers are seeking new methods for device fabrication. One promising candidate is...
