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Using advanced technology and an approach that merges engineering and medicine, a Yale University-led team has compiled some of the ...

A duel between mathematical models supports the reigning theory of the genetics of altruism It isn’t that often that a ...

Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have identified a new pathway by which several brain areas communicate within the brain’s striatum. Published ...

Scientists have captured the first detailed microscopy images of ultra-small bacteria that are believed to be about as small as ...

When diagnosing a case of Ebola, time is of the essence. However, existing diagnostic tests take at least a day ...

Plastic waste is one of today's major environmental concerns. Most types of plastic do not biodegrade but break up into ...

Like the shape-shifting robots of “Transformers” fame, a unique class of proteins in the human body also has the ability ...

By loading magnetic nanoparticles with drugs and dressing them in biochemical camouflage, Houston Methodist researchers say they can destroy blood ...

Three Austrian men have become the first in the world to undergo a new technique called “bionic reconstruction”, enabling them ...

Using advanced DNA sequencing methods, researchers have identified a new gene that is associated with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), ...

Scientists are interested in using gels to deliver drugs because they can be molded into specific shapes and designed to ...

Scientists have shown that gold nanotubes have many applications in fighting cancer: internal nanoprobes for high-resolution imaging; drug delivery vehicles; ...

How a brilliant-green sea slug manages to live for months at a time “feeding” on sunlight, like a plant, is ...

No one had checked before, but RNA, the nucleic acid involved in many cell functions including protein synthesis, appears to ...

The brain’s alphabet is a mix of rate and precise timing of electrical pulses: the observation was made by researchers ...

Researchers have succeeded for the first time in controlling the function of sperm by optogenetics. They inserted a light-activated enzyme ...

Proteins play a fundamental role in almost all biological processes. They consist of chains composed of up to 20 different ...

Swiss scientists have used a cutting-edge method to stimulate neurons with light. They have successfully recorded synaptic transmission between neurons ...

Researchers show that nerve cell centralisation does begin in multicellular animals. While searching for the origin of our brain, biologists ...

German doctors on Friday gave details of how an experimental drug together with advanced intensive care helped save a Ugandan ...