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Jason Barnes's prosthetic arm will let him live his drumming dream in his first gig this month – but it also adds its own rhythms...

Like a silent bionic army, the era of the cyborg has crept upon us. Like a silent bionic army, the era of the cyborg has...

A novel approach to cancer immunotherapy – strategies designed to induce the immune system to attack cancer cells – may provide a new and cost-effective...

How do we “know” from the movements of speeding car in our field of view if it’s coming straight toward us or more likely to...

Exciting research suggests that a shot every one to three months may someday give an alternative to the daily pills that some people take now...

Research team paves way to scale up manufacturing of large objects using a fully compostable bioplastic made from shrimp shells Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute...

A new study led by the University of Melbourne and Orygen Youth Health Research Centre is the first to discover that the brain develops differently...

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has induced human embryonic stem cells (hESC) to differentiate toward pure-population, mature heart muscle cells, or cardiomyocytes.A team...

A simple blood test* could pinpoint which children are unlikely to respond to treatment for a particularly aggressive form of neuroblastoma, according to a study...

In a study that began in a pair of infant siblings with a rare heart defect, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have identified a key...

Researchers have identified four biomarkers that help to identify people at high risk of dying from any disease within the next five years. Photo: 123rf...

Engineers in Italy have developed a wearable robot which they claim is the most sophisticated built in the world to date On the outskirts of...

It's long been a popular stereotype: Men are hugely competitive, meaning cooperative effort is the exception rather than the norm, while women have a tendency...

In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they were studying in a common...

Columbia researchers develop a general optical imaging platform to examine activities of a broad range of small biomolecules in living cells and animals Columbia University...