Researchers at Université Laval's Faculty of Science and Engineering and Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers have developed smart textiles able to monitor and transmit...
When it comes to getting out of a tricky situation, we humans have an evolutionary edge over other primates. Take, as a dramatic example, the...
Festival of Neuroscience will highlight some of the best research into the brain and nervous system in a conference with speakers and delegates from the...
Can we edit the content of our memories? It’s a sci-fi-tinged question that Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu are asking in their lab at MIT....
Bioengineers have created a new computer model that allows them to design the most complex three-dimensional DNA shapes ever produced, including rings, bowls, and geometric...
Genome engineering with the RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas9 system in animals and plants is changing biology. It is easier to use and more efficient than other genetic...
Researchers are using computed tomography (CT) and 3-D printing technology to recreate life-size models of patients' heads to assist in face transplantation surgery, according to...
Although prostate cancer can be successfully treated in many men, when the disease metastasizes to the bone, it is eventually lethal. In a study published...
Humans don’t like being alone, and their genes are no different. Together we are stronger, and the two versions of a gene – one from...
Researchers from the University of Dresden have used embryonic stem cells to grow an intact spinal cord in a petri dish, the team reported this...
Development of the cerebral cortex is influenced by genetic cues and communication between neurons and progenitors. Fluorescence microscopy image of a mouse cortex during brain...
The ruby red rows of tomatoes at the local grocery store don’t come off the vine in such a pretty state. Food producers pick fruits...
The new transport system for DNA vaccines could help treat HIV, malaria, HPV and other major illnesses University at Buffalo researchers, including Charles Jones, far...
The nervous system may play a bigger role in infections and autoimmune diseases than previously known. If researchers can learn more about that role, it...
Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have made a breakthrough in developing a new therapy for advanced bladder cancer - for which there have...
