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Touch can be a subtle sense, but it communicates quickly whether something in our hands is slipping, for example, so we can tighten our grip....

White adipose tissue stores excess calories as fat that can be released for use in other organs during fasting. Mammals also have small amounts of...

While the research may have only aimed to demonstrate what is possible for 3D printing of electronic devices, researchers at Princeton University have used 3D...

Future fitness trackers could soon add blood-oxygen levels to the list of vital signs measured with new technology developed by engineers at UC Berkeley. UC...

You’ve misplaced your cell phone. You start by scanning where you remember leaving it: on your bureau. You check and double-check the bureau before expanding...

Researchers from MIT and the Broad Institute have teamed up with colleagues from the University of Tokyo to form the first high-definition picture of the...

Columbia University Medical Center researchers have devised a way to replace the knee's protective lining, called the meniscus, using a personalized 3D-printed implant, or scaffold,...

Paying Attention Makes Touch-Sensing Brain Cells Fire Rapidly and in Sync. Whether we’re paying attention to something we see can be discerned by monitoring the...

Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers have taken what they describe as “the first step toward a pill that can replace the treadmill” for the...

Changing flesh to stone sounds like the work of a witch in a fairy tale. But a new technique to transmute living cells into more...

Researchers have long wondered if there is an upper limit to our capacity to store memories and how we manage to remember so many events...

One year Post-doctoral position is funded by Science Foundation Ireland Scalable, one step process for production of inhaled anti-tubercular therapies Applications are invited for this...

A scientific meeting for all neuroscientists in the Nordic and Baltic states. From June 10th to June 12th, 2015, the first Nordic Neuroscience meeting will...

Optogenetics is one of the hottest tools in biomedical research today, a method that uses gene therapy to deliver light-sensitive proteins into specific cells. This...

New findings show programmable biomaterials can be delivered using needle injection to induce an immune response and fight deadly diseases. A microscope image shows many...