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The 28th annual symposium of the Protein Society will be held in San Diego, July 27-30 2014. A full list of speakers and the preliminary...

Regenerative medicine is based on the ability of stem cells to repair tissue damage. The regenerative capacity of endogenous stem cells decreases with age, is...

A team of researchers working at the University of Colorado has found that human stem cells appear to remember the physical nature of the structure...

It's a jungle in there. In the tightly woven ecosystem of the human gut, trillions of bacteria compete with each other on a daily basis...

The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens. Unlike...

Nanotechnology could turn shrubbery into supercharged energy producers or sensors for explosives. Imaging the fluorescence of carbon nanotubes inside leaves of an Arabidopsis plant using...

Capitalizing on the ability of an organism to evolve in response to punishment from a hostile environment, scientists have coaxed the model bacterium Escherichia coli...

Your brain's ability to instantly link what you see with what you do is down to a dedicated information 'highway', suggests new UCL-led research. Credits:...

Study shows that fixation devices derived from silkworm silk are potentially attractive alternatives to metal and synthetic-based systems When a person suffers a broken bone,...

Team of researchers searched for the foundations of manic-depressive disorder in about 24,000 people First on top of the world and then in the depths...

Soft robots — which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels — have become a sufficiently popular...

When Manu Prakash, PhD, wants to impress lab visitors with the durability of his Origami-based paper microscope, he throws it off a three-story balcony, stomps...

The King lab, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, is seeking a creative, motivated, and highly skilled Postdoctoral Associate...

It may be the birth of a new supermaterial – not long ago, spider silk materials were considered science fiction. Despite being a bio-material and...

Intelligent people are more likely to trust others, while those who score lower on measures of intelligence are less likely to do so, says a...