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Scientists have made a step forward in their ability to mimic the sense of touch.A team from the US and China made an experimental array...

Reporting in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Tomás González-Villa and colleagues devised a recipe for improving beer foam. They identified a gene in...

A study at UW-Madison is the first to show that human stem cells can successfully implant themselves in the brain and then heal neurological deficits,...

Genetically engineered immune cells can drive an aggressive type of leukaemia into retreat, a small clinical trial suggests. The results of the trial — done...

For the first time, scientists reporting in Nature Medicine have created lab-grown kidneys in rats that produce urine after transplantation. Bioengineered rat kidneys developed by...

Better diagnosis and treatment of cancer could hinge on the ability to better understand a single cell at its molecular level. New research offers a...

The effort is part of a sweeping movement to grab hold of our genetic data and directly improve the way our bodies behave — a...

The researchers have engineered small molecules that support long-lived quantum coherences. Coherences are the macroscopically observable behavior of quantum superpositions. Superpositions are a fundamental quantum...

But in low doses, hydrogen sulfide could greatly enhance plant growth, leading to a sharp increase in global food supplies and plentiful stock for biofuel...

Their discovery in mice is likely to further fuel a recent scramble by researchers to identify roles for long-neglected bits of DNA within the genomes...

  Researchers at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine have discovered a technique that directly converts skin cells to the type of brain cells destroyed...

For the first time, scientists reporting in Nature Medicine have created lab-grown kidneys in rats that produce urine after transplantation. 

The creation of the first complete visual map of the telomerase enzyme, which is known to play a significant role in aging and most cancers,...

  The stunning video embedded in this post illustrates a new way of looking at the brain. Scientists at Stanford University have developed a method...

  Using a miniature electronic device implanted in the brain, scientists have tapped into the internal reward system of mice, prodding neurons to release dopamine,...