New Malaria-susceptible mosquito found

Researchers this week have reported in the journal Science the existence of a new subspecies of mosquito, that is highly susceptible to the most dangerous form of malaria parasites.

Hard graft yields new artificial arteries

The field of arterial graft surgery looks set to take a big leap forward thanks to a breakthrough by US scientists. Writing in Science Translational Medicine, Shannon Dahl, a researcher with the North Carolina-based bioengineering company Humacyte, has described a method for making large, very stro...

Electrical brain stimulation boosts lateral thought

Researchers in Australia have come up with the electrical equivalent of a thinking cap, capable of broadening the mind...

Dry Amazon rainforest could contribute to climate change

Researchers at the University of Leeds have found that an Amazonian drought in 2010 was more severe that one billed as a 'once in a century' event in 2005, and this could have big implications for the ability of the Amazon to act as a carbon sink...

Programmable packaging for cells

Scientists have developed the cellular equivalent of a shrink-wrapping system which is capable of packaging up chemicals inside the cell...