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More than 260,000 Americans are alive today thanks to transplant operations that have replaced their failing kidneys, hearts, lungs or livers with healthy organs donated...

You may be sensitive to gluten, but you’re not sure. Perhaps you can’t put your finger on a recurring malaise, and your doctor is at...

Ancient viruses from Neanderthals have been found in modern human DNA by researchers at Oxford University and Plymouth University. The researchers compared genetic data from...

An investigational, man-made blood vessel used in vascular grafts for kidney dialysis patients may potentially show encouraging early results among study patients in Poland, according...

UOW researchers are in the midst of developing an innovative brain implant to help treat people with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. Professor Xu-Feng Huang,...

An ambitious 3D-printed heart project aims to make a natural organ replacement for patients possible within a decade. But the researcher heading the effort also...

A method for bioengineering living human ears garnered a first-place award at the World Technology Summit in New York City, Nov. 15.Lawrence Bonassar, associate professor...

From a bacteria’s perspective the environment is one big DNA waste yard. Researchers have now shown that bacteria can take up small as well as...

The uncoupling Protein 1 (UCP1) is found exclusively in brown adipose tissue. Until some years ago it was thought that only babies and hibernating animals...

Diseases affecting the kidneys represent a major and unsolved health issue worldwide. The kidneys rarely recover function once they are damaged by disease, highlighting the...

If we wanted to count the number of people in a crowd, we could make on the fly estimates, very likely to be imprecise, or...

By using a new analysis method, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) in Sweden have found close to one hundred novel...

Unexpected behaviour in ferroelectric materials explored by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory supports a new approach to information storage and...

Computer scientists from the University of East Anglia are working to create a virtual birthing simulator that will help doctors and midwives prepare for unusual...