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A new technique which could revolutionise the treatment of epilepsy is to be tested thanks to a £10 million grant from the Wellcome Trust and...

An international team of scientists led by Jef Boeke, PhD, director of NYU Langone Medical Center’s Institute for Systems Genetics, has synthesized the first functional...

Neural probe arrays are expected to significantly benefit the lives of amputees and people affected by spinal cord injuries or severe neuromotor diseases. By providing...

A future computer might be a lot slimier than the solid silicon devices we have today. In a study published in the journal Materials Today,...

A Large international consortium of researchers has produced the first comprehensive, detailed map of the way genes work across the major cells and tissues of...

Significant progress toward creating "homo minutus" -- a benchtop human -- was reported at the Society of Toxicology meeting on Mar. 26 in Phoenix. The...

Imagine a day when a form of artificial intelligence could deliver a speech as compelling as one given by a human. A nonprofit organization called...

When a heart gets damaged, such as during a major heart attack, there’s no easy fix. But scientists working on a way to repair the...

Using only data from an fMRI scan, researchers led by a Yale University undergraduate have accurately reconstructed images of human faces as viewed by other...

It's well-known that the human body is a good conductor of electricity, and now researchers have taken advantage of this fact to create a small...

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Joint BioEnergy Institute have engineered a bacterium to synthesize pinene, a hydrocarbon produced by trees that...

Plans for a new type of DNA vaccine to protect against the deadly HIV and Hepatitis C viruses have taken an important step forward, with...

Billionaire tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, along with actor Ashton Kutcher, have joined forces to make a $40 million investment in the artificial...

Stem cell model shows nerve cells develop, behave and respond to lithium differently – opening doors to potential new treatments. What makes a person bipolar,...

"Imagine turning on your home lab kit, pricking your finger, and blotting the blood on an array of fiber probes. In just a few minutes,...