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Scientists have discovered a way to dramatically boost the numbers of stem cells used for bone marrow transplants.
The technique uses stem cells known as CD34 cells, which are present in the blood of a developing baby. A small number of them can be harvested from the umbilical cord immediat...
Scientists have uncovered the scientific reason why hunting for a needle in a haystack is so hard - and often fruitless.
If you're a little bit scatterbrained when it comes to organising things and often spend an evening rifling through bits and pieces which, of course, were fi...
A living cell is an immensely complicated chemical machine, working with thousands of interacting molecules, and we haven't got an instruction manual.
Usually, if you're given a machine you don't understand, you prod it and see what happens. One of the biological equivalents of this is to in...
Scientists have found that the male arousal hormone, testosterone, peaks in line with a woman's fertility.
Writing in the journal Psychological Science, Florida State University researchers Saul Miller and Jon Maner recruited 37 male students aged 18-23 and four non-pill-using females aged 18-19. ...
We’ve heard about carbon sequestration, deep beneath the Earth, but now here’s another way of dealing with the CO2 problem - with copper.
Part of the reason that CO2 is a problem is that it’s quite tricky to extract it from the air as it’s quite a stable molecule, at least compared with oxygen. And...
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