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Credits: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center 3-D bioengineered lung-like tissue (left) resembles adult human lung (right).By coating tiny gel beads with lung-derived stem cells...

Extended-spectrum ß-lactamase-producing bacteria (ESBL) come from a strain of E. coli and are resistant to several types of antibiotics, severely limiting treatment options. Credit: James...

Daily sex (or ejaculating daily) for seven days improves men’s sperm quality by reducing the amount of DNA damage, according to an Australian study presented...

Researchers have clarified important mechanisms involved in the formation of neural circuits in the brain. This group also discovered that delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a psychoactive substance...

Turns out bacteria may transfer to candy that has fallen on the floor no matter how fast you pick it up. Rutgers researchers have disproven...

Sixteen MIT graduate students are among the 2017 cohort of Siebel Foundation Scholars hailing from the world’s top graduate programs in business, bioengineering, computer science,...

Nanoparticles offer a promising way to deliver cancer drugs in a targeted fashion, helping to kill tumors while sparing healthy tissue. However, most nanoparticles that...

When asked to visualize your childhood home, you can probably picture not only the house you lived in, but also the buildings next door and...

Credit: © Photo: Barbara Frommann / University of Bonn Research into plant cells is far from complete. Scientists under the biochemist Professor Peter Dörmann at...

Scrub typhus, a disease transmitted through “chiggers” that kills at least 140,000 people a year in the Asia-Pacific region, may now be endemic in a...

SEATTLE – Sept. 7, 2016 – Umbilical cord blood transplants may have advantages beyond offering an alternative stem cell source for leukemia patients without a...

An international research collaboration, led by University of Sydney, has found that exercising at even basic recommended weekly physical activity levels (at least 150 minutes...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) | by AJC1(Thursday, 8 September 2016: Oslo) Prisons provide one of the most significant opportunities to drive down the prevalence of...

SUNY Downstate Medical Center’s Distinguished Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology Richard M. Rosenfeld, MDBrooklyn, NY – In an article in the New England Journal of...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers are exploring ways to wrap pig tissue with a protective coating to ultimately fight diabetes in...